Decolonial Communism, Democracy and the Commons - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0850367476 ISBN 13: 9780850367478

Publisher: The Merlin Press Ltd, 2018

Synopsis

Did communists develop another model of Socialism in the 1960s and 1970s - `a decolonial communism’? Do struggles and debates on the construction of socialism, in Yugoslavia and elsewhere, show a path to democracy and commons? Against the backdrop of deepening inequalities with the introduction of `market socialism’ in the mid-1960s, worker and student protested against a lack of respect for socialist values and for self-management rights. Distinguished contributors review past and present experiences and reconsider discussions in the light of current thinking.: • In Yugoslavia past and present, through the lens of Commons • In Portugal and Chile, and Cuba in 1970s as essays in workers’ control. Catherine Samary uses a `decolonial’ framework to consider relations of domination that can involuntarily mark political and intellectual relations – including those identifying with Marxism. Radical and egalitarian self-managed relations can mature only if they are at the heart of a real socialist system, and are not isolated in one country only.

About this title

About the Author

Catherine Samary is an economist and lecturer, she is the author of Yugoslavia Dismembered, writes for Le Monde Diplomatique, is a co-founder of the Espace Marx (Paris), and is a member of the council of ATTAC-France. Fred Leplat edited The Far Right In Europe and writes for Socialist Viewpoint.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Merlin Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0850367476
• ISBN 13: 9780850367478
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Samary Catherine, Leplat Fred