Tue
Jan
31
“ The ideological ramifications of the collapse of communism have been profound and wide-ranging, and, in many ways, continue to unfold. The ideology most clearly affected has been socialism. Revolutionary socialism, especially in its Soviet-style, Marxist–Leninist guise, was revealed as a spent force, both because of the economic failings of central planning and because of the system’s association with state authoritarianism. However, democratic socialism has also been affected; some argue that it has been fatally compromised. In particular, democratic socialists have lost faith in ‘top-down’ state control, and have come to accept the market as the only reliable means of generating wealth
Andrew Heywood, Political Ideologies (Third Edition, 2007)
(Source: rmmkkenny, via whakatikatika)
