ohn E. Roemer, a leading socialist economist, has recently proclaimed a “Future for Socialism” (Roemer 1994). His book is advertised as being “measured, highly accessible, and most of all compelling.” I have come to the opposite conclusions. Roemer’s most provocative assertion is his claim to have found “ways of reformulating the concept of market socialism in response to the Hayekian critique”...

Through the use of a three-wave panel study of citizens of the former East German city of Leipzig, the article explores the changes in the relationship between socialist values and democratic support over time. It finds that the direct effect of socialist values on democratic satisfaction declines substantially from the 1993–96 portion of the panel study to the 1996–98 period. As individuals ac...

The article shows how the Khmer Rouge’s restructuring of the environment into a socialist utopian space could be explained as an attempt to establish and tighten control over the populace and the factionalized movement. By inscribing power structures into the environment, the Khmer Rouge tried to ‘create’ loyal and faithful subjects. Michel Foucault’s concepts of a ‘disciplinary space’ and pano...

Short of state implosion, what those who wish to promote free markets most need is an unevasive, contemporary, socialist theory. A bird cannot fly without air resistance, and those who oppose planning, egalitarianism, and “democracy” cannot long be sustained by grudging consent, however wide, relieved only by pedantic disputes over the terms of agreement. W. Paul Cockshott and Allin Cottrell in...

Patricia D. Fox's article, "What's Past is Prologue: Imagining the Socialist Nation in Cuba and in Hungary," examines the symbolic mooring of Cuban and Hungarian identity, recuperated Caliban from William Shakespeare's The Tempest and an ever conflicted Faustus/Adam from Imre Madách's Az ember tragédiája, respectively. Despite serial cosmological fragmentations and political upheaval, the prese...

This paper explores the construction of a Soviet learning society represented in political posters during first decade after 1917 Socialist Revolution. The theoretical framework is based on studies societies, lifelong education and learning, education, theory multiple modernities. We employed post-structuralist discourse analysis that allowed us to explore verbal non-verbal poster elements iden...

In his book The Economics of Feasible Socialism Alec Nove criticizes the methods of Marxist economics, as misleading or irrelevant for the task of building socialism, and rejects the goal of Marxist politics—socialism without commodity production—as impossible of realization. Any effective answer to his objections must follow the same procedure that Marx employed in his study of the emergence o...

An individual’s value system plays an important role in their intimate relationship or marriage. Most marital satisfaction research to date has been carried out high-income liberal Western societies. We conducted original quantitative empirical survey of virtues and values examine effect on quality stability a sample 511 respondents from Slovenia, post-socialist society transition. The results ...

The period of the “socialist project” occupied biggest part 20th century. Hugescale social experiments have greatly shaped present-day city’s appearance. second half century evidenced an unprecedented volume housing and industrial technologies in house construction design. Most us, today’s citizens, live neighborhoods houses built during socialist era.Belgrade Split, Sverdlovsk, Sevastopol, Mag...