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Marxism: A Bourgeois Critique
Machan, Tibor R. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 15 (1988) 11/12, pp. 2-131
Here Marx's philosophy is dissected from the angle of bourgeois capitalism which he, Marx, sought to overcome. His social, political and economic ideas are criticised. Although it is noted that Marx wanted to ameliorate human suffering, the result turned out to be Utopian, contrary to his own...
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On Some Aspects of the Soviet‐type Development
Raiklin, Ernest - In: International Journal of Social Economics 19 (1992) 6, pp. 42-54
capitalism or socialism or communism”: as long as the yardstick for the comparison remains capitalism of laissez‐faire ; and as …
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Socialism and its Future in the Post‐Soviet Era
Elliott, John E. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 19 (1992) 7/8/9, pp. 25-36
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 …
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Gorbachev, Perestroika and Democratizing Socialism
Elliott, John E.; Dowlah, A.F. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 21 (1994) 10, pp. 73-115
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 …
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The Life and Times of Soviet Socialism
O’Neil, Daniel J. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 25 (1998) 2/3/4, pp. 504-505
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The Life and Times of Soviet Socialism
O’Neil, Daniel J. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 25 (1998) 6/7/8, pp. 1326-1327
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Reflections on Economic Aspects of Gorbachev's Book Perestroika: Wishful Thinking for a Make‐believe World?
Raiklin, Ernest - In: International Journal of Social Economics 16 (1989) 3, pp. 9-33
Gorbachev′s book Perestroika is used to explain why the author believes the new policy of restructuring of the Soviet economy cannot and will not work. The policies of Perestroika are introduced and evaluated and the existing socio‐economic system presented. At the end of this sceptical...
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Gorbachev's Perestroika — Beginning of a Soviet Socialist Social Market Economy?
Karsten, Siegfried G. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 16 (1989) 6, pp. 39-49
To what extent Mikhail Gorbachev′s Glasnost and Perestroika anticipate the paradigm of a socialist market economy, is investigated. Gorbachev, like China′s Deng Xiaoping, realises that socio‐economic theories which abstract themselves from the observations and needs of daily life have...
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The Eternal Path to Communism: From Marx via Lenin and Stalin to Solzhenitsyn and Gorbachev
Conway O'Brien, John - In: International Journal of Social Economics 18 (1991) 5/6/7, pp. 10-31
decries the evils of the USSR and attributes them to the evils of the Marxist‐Leninist ideology. Gorbachev, alive to the … and peacemaker. Communism is still bent on world domination.  …
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The Role of the Law of Value in the Rise and Fall of Socialism in the USSR
Riha, Tomas J.F. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 21 (1994) 2/3/4, pp. 117-140
recognition of its restricted functioning during the transitory phase from socialism to communism, then its recognition as a … 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 …
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