090107
The Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation for Spokesman Books
Nottingham
1974
14,5×22
tvrdi s omotom
63
engleski
Cijena: 12,00 EUR
A historically important and theoretically profound work of political nonfiction by the prominent French sociologist and political analyst Serge Mallet (1927–1973). The volume proudly bears the label "European Socialist Thought: No. 1", marking the beginning of an important edition that re-examined and redefined the European Left in the midst of Cold War upheavals. In this key essay, Mallet provides a sharp sociological analysis of the class structure of the Soviet Union and countries with similar socialist constitutional systems. With his entirely original insight, the author dissects the tense and complex relations between the ruling political leadership (party bureaucracy) and the economic and technical specialists within the elite itself (technocracy). Mallet poses fundamental and provocative questions that intensely occupied socialist thinkers of the time: does the ruling group in the USSR represent an entirely "new class" based on a quiet restoration of capitalism, or is it a matter of a highly authoritarian working-class leadership? The theoretical importance of this work is further emphasized by its historical context – written under the strong impression of the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, this essay offers a necessary model for understanding the sociology of non-socialist and post-capitalist tendencies. The book's content is divided into five thematic units, including chapters on the ideals and reality of socialist states, bureaucracy in Eastern Europe, and a detailed analysis of the situation following the Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia, profiling it as indispensable reading for any researcher of political theory, the history of socialism, and the Marxist sociology of labor.
