The crisis of the German left : the PDS, Stalinism and the global economy / / Peter Thompson

• Autore: Thompson Peter <1960 July 22->
• Pubblicazione: New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2005; ©2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (144 pages)
• Disciplina: 324.243/027
• Soggetto topico: Communism - Germany (East) - History; Globalization
• Soggetto geografico: Germany Politics and government 1990-; Germany Economic conditions 1990-; Germany Social conditions 1990-
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1 ON THE USES AND DISADVANTAGES OF HISTORY FOR THE PDS -- Chapter 2 THE LONG COLD WAR AND THE SHORT POLITICAL CENTURY -- Chapter 3 THE PDS: MARX’S BABY OR STALIN’S BATHWATER? -- CONCLUSIONS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: Using Nietzsche's categories of monumentalist, antiquarian and critical history, the author examines the historical and theoretical contexts of the collapse of the GDR in 1989 and looks at the positive and negative legacies of the GDR for the PDS (the successor party to the East German Communists). He contends that the Stalinization of the GDR itself was the product not just of the Cold War but of a longer inter-systemic struggle between the competing primacies of politics and economics and that the end of the GDR has to be seen as a consequence of the global collapse of the social imperative under the pressure of the re-emergence of the market-state since the mid-1970s. The PDS is therefore stuck in dilemma in which any attempt to "arrive in the Federal Republic" (Brie) is criticized as a readiness to accept the dominance of the market over society whereas any attempt to prioritize social imperatives over the market is attacked as a form of unreconstructed Stalinism. The book offers some suggestions as to how to escape from this dilemma by returning to the critical rather than monumentalist and antiquarian traditions of the workers’ movement.
• Titolo autorizzato: The crisis of the German left
• ISBN: 1-84545-160-0; 1-57181-543-0; 1-78533-053-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910798382203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Monographs in German history ; ; Volume 13.