Did the U.S. really "win" the Cold War? Is the fall of Communism only a temporary setback for Marxism, or has the freemarket prevailed, once and for all? It has been over ten years since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the tenth anniversary of the fall of the Soviet Union is fast approaching. In this text, Marxist scholars and journalists gather to argue that justice and equality are important in the 21st century, more so than ever.
Table of Contents
1.Introduction by George Katsiaficas 2.Part one: Historical Interventions Chapter one: 1989 revisited Daniel Singer Chapter two: How we ended the cold war John Tirman 3. Part Two: Analytical Accounts Chapter three: 1989: Continuation of 1968 Giovanni Arrighi, Terrence Hopkins and Immanual Wallerstein 4. Chapter four: The Road to Consumption Boris Kagarlitsky Part three: Retrospective views Chapter Five: Germany: A decade of hope and despair Hanna Behrand Chapter Six: China: Ten years after the Tiananmen crackdown Ngo Vihn Long Chapter six: How Adjaria did not become another Bosnia. Historical determination, human agency and accident in the study of nationalist conflict George M. Derluguian Part four Ethical Imperatives Chapter seven: Of means and ends: 1989 as Ethico-political imperative Manfred B. Steger Chapter eight: The sickness unto death: International communism before the deluge stephen Eric Bronner Part five: Political Responses Chapter Nine: Rollback: The aftermath of the overthrow of communism 'Michael Parenti Chapter ten: Cols war triumphalism: A reply to John Gaddis Irene Gendzier Part six The future of socialism after communism Chapter eleven: Transceding pessimism: Rekindling socialist imagination leo Panitch and Sam Gindin Chapter twelve: Postcommunist democratic socialism Nancy Fraser Contributors Index
