ParEcon: Related Material
The
writings included here provide additional context and information.
We have organized them into the following topics:
Is
Socialism Still on the Agenda?
by Michael Albert
Albert on the word and the models.
Revolutions
in the East
by Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel
An analysis of the fall of the Soviet-style Eastern Bloc economies.
Cuba Sí?
by Michael Albert
An essay on Cuban history and economy.
Goodbye Soviets?
by Michael Albert
About the fall of the Eastern Bloc and its meaning. |
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Outlawing all but a single “vanguard”
party ruled by “democratic” centralism has nothing
to do with democracy except its subversion. These political
institutions systematically impede participatory impulses,
promote popular passivity, and breed authoritarianism,
bureaucratism, and corruption…. More than anything else,
and in particular more than any economic failures, it
is the failure of “political Marxism-Leninism”
that is the essence of the revolutions of 1989.
From: Revolutions
in the East
by Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel
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