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Complications : communism and the dilemmas of democracy /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lefort, Claude
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Translated from the French.
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2007]
Series:Columbia studies in political thought/political history.
Subjects:
Communism.
Online Access:Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • Wisdom of the historian
  • Critique of "couch liberalism"
  • Autopsy of an illusion
  • Marx's false paternity
  • The idea of revolution and the revolutionary phenomenon
  • The Jacobin phantom
  • A liberal matrix for the dictatorship of the proletariat?
  • Democracy and totalitarianism
  • The myth of the Soviet Union in the West
  • The French communist party after World War II
  • Utopia and tragedy
  • The political and the social
  • An intentional movement
  • The party above all
  • Disincorporation and reincorporation of power
  • Hannah Arendt on the law of movement and ideology
  • The perversion of the law
  • The fabrication of the social
  • Voluntary servitude
  • Impossible reform
  • Planning and social division
  • Psychologism and moralism at fault
  • Communism and the constitution of the world-space.