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Socialism As a Secular Creed
A Modern Global History
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2021
Summary
Andrei Znamenski argues that socialism arose out of activities of secularized apocalyptic sects, the Enlightenment tradition, and dislocations produced by the Industrial Revolution. He examines how, by the 1850s, Marx and Engels made the socialist creed “scientific” by linking it to “history laws” and inventing the proletariat—the “chosen people” that were to redeem the world from oppression. Focusing on the fractions between social democracy and communism, Znamenski explores why, historically, socialism became associated with social engineering and centralized planning. He explains the rise of the New Left in the 1960s and its role in fostering the cultural left that came to privilege race and identity over class. Exploring the global retreat of the left in the 1980s–1990s and the “great neoliberalism scare,” Znamenski also analyzes the subsequent renaissance of socialism in wake of the 2007–2008 crisis.
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2021
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-5730-6
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-5731-3
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
452
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Contents No access
List of Figures No access
Socialism Studies and Socialism as a Modern Political Religion No access
Utopians, Marxists, Anarchists, and Ethno-Nationalism No access
How Do We Name It? “Socialism,” “Communism,” and “Social Democracy” No access
Notes No access
Chapter 1 Religion of Modernity No access Pages 1 - 24
Chapter 2 “Sabbath of History” No access Pages 25 - 56
Chapter 3 Great Schism No access Pages 57 - 86
Chapter 4 Prophecy of the World Revolution and Nationalist Temptations, 1917–1930s No access Pages 87 - 110
Chapter 5 National Bolshevism No access Pages 111 - 136
Chapter 6 True Believers, Fellow Travelers, and Dissenters (1920s–1940s) No access Pages 137 - 164
Chapter 7 Creating Community No access Pages 165 - 190
Chapter 8 “Regime of Goodness” No access Pages 191 - 210
Chapter 9 Blood and Soil in the Palestine Desert No access Pages 211 - 232
Chapter 10 The East Is Red No access Pages 233 - 266
Chapter 11 African Socialism No access Pages 267 - 298
Chapter 12 The Western Left No access Pages 299 - 316
Chapter 13 Retreat of Socialism in the Soviet Union and China (1980s–2008) No access Pages 317 - 338
Chapter 14 How Marxism Became Cultural No access Pages 339 - 358
Chapter 15 The Cultural Left and the “Curse” of the Western Civilization, 1960s–2010s No access Pages 359 - 382
