Provides an overall assessment of problems and prospects for socialism (at a time of the abolition of the old Union of … socialism, its demise does not demonstrate a “failure” of socialism or a “victory” of capitalism. Second, dissolution of the old …, partly because of the confusion between an authentic socialism and the actual Soviet regime, prospects for socialism seem …

democratic and humane socialism. Gorbachev′s perestroika envisaged a fundamental structural and technological renovation of … social priorities. Analyses Gorbachev′s model of democratizing socialism with respect to underlying causes or origins, and …

decries the evils of the USSR and attributes them to the evils of the Marxist‐Leninist ideology. Gorbachev, alive to the …

production and commodity production prevail. Under the centrally directed system of socialism, the economic process must be …‐ordinating mechanism. In theory, the process of building socialism is a process of the withering away of the operation of the law of value … understanding of the fundamental differences between capitalism and socialism, or the failure of the Marxist‐Leninist dogma. It also …

more democratized form of Soviet‐style socialism. An earlier artilce focused on underlying causes and origins of this … democratized version of Soviet socialism and its institutions and policy measures. Extends analysis of the Gorbachev period to …