Struggle For Socialism: Some Issues

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This volume deals with some of the issues confronting the struggle for socialism in the post Soviet period are: learning from the Soviet experience the validity of Marx's critique of capitalism revolutionary theory and renewal of Marxism, the recovery of socialist vision Leninist dreaming and Marx's gift of historical optimism, the pursuit of revolutionary politics in regimes of bourgeois democracy, the struggle for hegemony classes and class struggle, the question of agency of revolutionary change the constituency of socialism today, the 'new' social movements, NGOs and 'civil society activism' power in the state identity politics revolutionary leadership and Lenin's theory of the Party. The volume concludes with 'a few final comments on the subject of socialism and the struggle for it. An appendix 'On the Question of Socialism Today' has been additionally incorporated in this volume which touches upon issues ranging from Marx's perspective on the socialist transition to socialism and the CPM politics in West Bengal.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Randhir Singh

Randhir Singh, a distinguished teacher and former Professor of Political Theory, University of Delhi, is the author of Reason, Revolution and Political Theory, Of Marxism and Indian Politics and Five Lectures in Marxist Mode.

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Title
Struggle For Socialism: Some Issues
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
9789350020234
Length
210p., 23cm.
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