During the last century or so, two dominant doctrines i.e. Capitalism and Socialism had been in a state of constant confrontation resulting in engaging the two Super powers, the United States and the Soviet Union in wars such as the Vietnam War and the Cold War. The Cold War that continued for several decades finally led to the disintegration of the Soviet Union. This article was an attempt to ...

Four models of "socialism" are current in Latin America today: Chilean social democracy, Cuban revolutionary socialism, socialism as self-management, and the illdefined "twenty-first century socialism" espoused by Hugo Chávez. The best known theorist of "twenty-first century socialism" is Heinz Dieterich who believes that computers will make it possible to realize a utopian vision that failed i...

This paper discusses both textual and structural legacies of socialism in Croatian popular music since the collapse of socialism and Yugoslavia. Yugoslav socialism struggled to reconcile socialist consciousness and capitalist consumerism, forcing the producers of popular culture to make sense of the political  eld that surrounded them and put ideology into practice. The structural conditions o...

MY COMMENTS ON the future of Socialism are divided into three parts. The first deals with Sovietism, or Marxist Socialism modified by the Russian tradition, and its offsprings around the world. The second has to do with various hues of social democracy, from the vaguely Gramscian Marxist variety to the welfare state of mixed origins. The third deals with one reason why some form of Socialism ma...

Based on oral history research conducted among networks of blue-collar workers in Belgrade, Serbia, this article develops three interrelated arguments regarding workers' appraisals of the recent past (1980-2014). Firstly, although the tumultuous years of late socialism and post-socialism in Serbia have been represented by scholars as a series of ruptures, I suggest that for blue-collar workers ...

Introduction The theoretical crisis facing Marxism, and the political crisis gripping the socialist movement internationally, is clearly grave. In marked contrast to the past few decades, where to be progressive was to be socialist and to be intellectual was to be left, we are entering a decade where socialism is in retreat and leftists are on the defensive. Indeed, some have concluded that to ...

Since socialism as a logically consistent system will both produce and require human beings with different consciousness, behavior and capabilities than those produced and required by capitalism, one has a chicken-and-egg dilemma for a transition to socialism. Particularly important is the obfuscation of the social cooperative nature of human production (and hence existence) behind both the ide...

Abstract: Some scholars of the Interwar Debate on Socialism argue that the trial and error method developed by Taylor (1929), Lange (1938), and Dickinson (1939) proved that socialism could match or outperform capitalism. Other scholars argue that the trial and error method of simulating markets was an illegitimate compromise between true socialism and capitalism. The market socialists failed to...

In Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy Joseph A. Schumpeter concluded that socialism would eventually displace capitalism in Western democracies. This would come about as a result of the superior performance of capitalism. We extract six ”stylized” propositions that are essential elements of Schumpeter’s prediction about the fate of capitalism. These propositions are confronted with the develop...