9781571815439-1571815430-The Crisis of the German Left: The PDS, Stalinism and the Global Economy (Monographs in German History, 13)

The Crisis of the German Left: The PDS, Stalinism and the Global Economy (Monographs in German History, 13)

ISBN-13: 9781571815439
ISBN-10: 1571815430
Edition: 1
Author: Peter Thompson
Publication date: 2005
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Format: Hardcover 144 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781571815439
ISBN-10: 1571815430
Edition: 1
Author: Peter Thompson
Publication date: 2005
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Format: Hardcover 144 pages

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The Crisis of the German Left: The PDS, Stalinism and the Global Economy (Monographs in German History, 13) (ISBN-13: 9781571815439 and ISBN-10: 1571815430), written by authors Peter Thompson, was published by Berghahn Books in 2005. With an overall rating of 4.3 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent The Crisis of the German Left: The PDS, Stalinism and the Global Economy (Monographs in German History, 13) (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.6.

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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.

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