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S06/0405 --- China: Politics and government--CCP, history and ideology: general --- Communism --- Socialism --- Intellectuals --- Communisme --- Socialisme --- Intellectuels --- China --- Chine --- Politics and government --- Politique et gouvernement --- Communism and intellectuals --- Intellectuals and communism

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Communism and intellectuals --- Power (Social sciences) --- Socialism --- 316.342.2 --- #SBIB:044.AANKOOP --- Marxism --- Social democracy --- Socialist movements --- Collectivism --- Anarchism --- Communism --- Critical theory --- Empowerment (Social sciences) --- Political power --- Exchange theory (Sociology) --- Political science --- Social sciences --- Sociology --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Intellectuals and communism --- Intellectuals --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Political sociology

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This book investigates a central chapter in the history of 20th century intellectualism: the commitment to the communist ideal and the Soviet Union. Focusing on Argentina, whose communist party was among the most important in Latin America, Petra engages with the current literature on Western communism in order to conduct an exhaustive study of the intellectuals, cultural organizations, publications, and debates within Argentine communism in the decades following World War II. Based on rigorous archival research from diverse sources, Petra’s book distances itself from existing teleological visions and institutional approaches to the communist world, offering instead a complex framework in which multiple contexts, scales, and actors frame the larger problem: the intellectual commitment to a political project that brooked no dissent. Intellectuals and Communist Culture also addresses the emergence of Peronism, a crucial movement in Argentine political life to this very day, thus offering an important chapter on Latin American political and intellectual history and an invaluable contribution to the global history of the international communist movement. Adriana Petra is Researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research of Argentina and Professor at the School of Humanities of the National University of San Martín, Argentina.

Communism and intellectuals --- History --- Argentina --- Intellectual life --- Intellectuals and communism --- Intellectuals --- Political science. --- World politics. --- Latin America --- Political Theory. --- Political History. --- Latin American History. --- Political Science. --- History. --- Colonialism --- Global politics --- International politics --- Political history --- Political science --- World history --- Eastern question --- Geopolitics --- International organization --- International relations --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The

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Left-wing intellectuals in Britain and the US had long repudiated the Soviet regime. Why was the collapse of the Eastern Bloc experienced as a shock that destabilised their identities and political allegiances then? What happened to a collective project that had started out to formulate a socialist vision different from both really existing socialism and social democracy? This study endeavours to answer both questions, focusing on generational networks rather than individuals and investigating political academic journals after 1989 to paint the picture of a Left deeply troubled by the triumph of a capitalism unfettered by any counter-force. »The value of this work lies not in its novelty, but rather in Berg's remarkable achievement of meticulously cataloging oppositional thought.« A. Shahid Stover, connections, 22.02.2019 »This study can only be recommended to every reader.« Christian Huck, Anglistik, 29/2 (2018) Besprochen in: https://s-usih.org, 1 (2019), Michael J. Kramer

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The collapse of Marxism as a compelling ideology and political force is one of the most important developments in the history of twentieth-century Europe. This book seeks to understand the failure of Marxism by viewing it up close, in the experiences of three important Marxist intellectuals—the Belgian Henri De Man, the German Max Horkheimer, and the Pole Leszek Kolakowski—each of whom embraced Marxism early in life and later decisively rejected it. The author focuses on the processes through which these three figures lost their faith in Marxism, thereby providing the framework for a more general account of modern ideological disenchantment. An introductory chapter surveys an earlier stage of that disenchantment by examining the appeal of Nietzsche and his concept of the superman to Marxist intellectuals in each of the major European socialist movements, focusing particularly on those who have lost confidence in the redemptive historical role of the proletariat. In studying the ideological trajectory of De Man, Horkheimer, and Kolakowski, the author identifies the common dilemmas they faced in their efforts to advance the Marxist cause. Those dilemmas arose in large part out of the clash between their bourgeois ethical sensibilities and the materialistic and deterministic outlook of orthodox Marxism. This clash provides a connecting link between the three generations of Marxist intellectuals dealt with in the study. The author also discusses the aftermath of these three versions of ideological disenchantment—the attempts of each of these intellectuals to reconstruct a view of the world following the dissolution of his Marxist faith. The book concludes by placing Marxism in a broad historical context, and raises questions about its place—and that of the utopian imagination in general—within Western civilization.

Communism and intellectuals --- #SBIB:321H60 --- Intellectuals and communism --- Intellectuals --- Westerse politieke en sociale theorieën vanaf de 19e eeuw: socialisme, marxisme, communisme, anarchisme --- Man, Hendrik de, --- Horkheimer, Max, --- Koakowski, Leszek. --- Horḳhaimer, M. --- הורקהיימר, מקס --- 霍克海默尔, --- Хоркхаймер, Макс, --- Khorkkhaĭmer, Maks, --- Man, Henri de, --- De Man, Hendrik, --- Man, Henry de, --- De Man, Henry, --- De Man, Henri, --- מאן, הענריק דע --- Kołakowski, Leszek. --- Kolakowski, Leszek. --- de Man, Hendrik. --- De Man, Henri --- De Man, Henry --- Man, Hendrik de --- Man, Henri de --- De Man, Hendrik --- Man, Henry de --- de Man, Hendrik