Since the fall of the Berlin Wall we have been told that no alternative to Western capitalism is possible or desirable …. This book challenges this view with two arguments. First, the above premise ignores the enormous variety within capitalism …

-matter: socialism, capitalism, democracy, change of system. These four expressions cover four phenomena of great and comprehensive … importance. Each piece in the book deals with these and the connections between them. One of the Leitmotifs is the “capitalism/socialism …” pair of opposites. Capitalism has a history of several hundred years, while the socialist regime existed only for a few …