USSR and the first modern society was established in which language Country Email List (ideology, philosophy) was imposed on the economy, that is, on the capitalist law of value. For Chukhrov, this fact constitutes an exceptional advancement of human society that cannot be ignored. Country Email List In this summary I allow myself to capture and convey a very unique tone that runs through the entire book: at times it seems that we are witnessing a fairly frank attempt to reclaim emancipatory Country Email List aspects of Soviet life, ignoring the widely known oppressive features. However, the angle taken by Chukhrov should not be confused at all with an apology for the political regime.
Especially the Stalinist period. If there was a "really existing socialism", a "really Country Email List existing anti-communism" also endures. The expectation still prevails that any left theoretical intervention around Marxist revolutionary history must comply with a certain protocol of self-incrimination Country Email List nd repentance before claiming for reflection certain objective transformations that meant an achievement and that could contribute some lessons to the emancipatory perspective. skillful, that is, something more than the kind of moralizing self-criticism that translates into arguments of political disqualification. Chukhrov simply bypasses that protocol in order to think beyond the moral indictment. It recognizes that the collapse of the USSR Country Email List responded to the.
Erogressive erosion of its institutions, related to its bureaucratic and oppressive Country Email List character, but argues that, contrary to what almost all Western criticism assumes, Country Email List such deterioration was not due to failure in the attempt to establish a communist society, but because it was too successful, too soon, to institutionalize the process properly. According to her, the relative lack of preparation of society for the change produced responds to the fact that this change Country Email List was very fast and very complete, by effectively developing relations of production emancipated from private property and generators of a de-alienated society and culture, based on a non-libidinal economy organized for the common good. In theThe USSR.