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How the Left has Won
Livingston, James
http://jacobinmag.com/2012/08/how-the-left-has-won/Publisher: Jacobin Magazine Year Published: 2012 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX14619 Capitalism was the unintended consequence of bourgeois revolutions, whereas socialism has been the avowed purpose, or at least a crucial component, of every revolution since 1911. This difference has become so important that when we think about the transition from capitalism to socialism, we take the short view: we look for ideological extremes, social movements, vanguard parties, self-conscious revolutionaries, radical dissenters, armed struggles, extra-legal methods, political convulsions – as if the coming of socialism requires the abolition of capitalism by cataclysm, by insurgent, militant mass movements dedicated to that purpose. Subject Headings |