| Popis: |
A radical critique of past socialist theory and practice is now widely recognized to be a necessary precondition for a convergence between socialists and the new social movements [NSMs]. But the ‘ideal revision’ required is really so profound that it amounts to the construction of a new societal paradigm. What is called for is a new synthesis of the insights of socialism’s critique of capitalism and those of the new social movements and their theorists. ‘Socialism’ has not succeeded in encompassing diverse forms of domination and oppression, which have become increasingly ‘politicized’, or conflictualized, in the post-World War II era. Moreover, the term has such deeply rooted associations with the anti-democratic, environmentally disastrous, and other negative aspects of ‘formerly existing socialism’, that it may be a politically bankrupt label. |
