Complications Communism and the Dilemmas of Democracy

Name: Complications Communism and the Dilemmas of Democracy
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ISBN: 9780231133005

ISBN-10: 0231133006

ISBN-13: 9780231133005

Edition: 2007

Authors: Claude Lefort, Julian Bourg, Dick Howard

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Claude Lefort challenges the belief that the death of communism was a victory for liberal democracy and provides a new understanding of the rise and fall of the Soviet Union and the communist phenomenon.

Book details

List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 6/5/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.93" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English



Foreword



Acknowledgments


Translator's Introduction



Author's Introduction



Wisdom of the Historian



Critique of "Couch Liberalism"



Autopsy of an Illusion



Marx's False Paternity



The Idea of Revolution and the Revolutionary Phenomenon



The Jacobin Phantom



A Liberal Matrix for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat?



Democracy and Totalitarianism



The Myth of the Soviet Union in the West



The French Communist Party After World War II



Utopia and Tragedy



The Political and the Social



An Intentional Movement



The Party Above All



Disincorporation and Reincorporation of Power



Hannah Arendt on the Law of Movement and Ideology



The Perversion of the Law



The Fabrication of the Social



Voluntary Servitude



Impossible Reform



Planning and Social Division



Psychologism and Moralism at Fault



Communism and the Constitution of the World-Space


Notes


Index