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Socialism as a Secular Creed: A Modern Global History


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Andrei Znamenski argues that socialism arose out of activities of secularized apocalyptic sects, the Enlightenment tradition, and dislocations produced by the Industrial Revolution. He examines how, by the 1850s, Marx and Engels made the socialist creed “scientific” by linking it to “history laws” and inventing the proletariat—the “chosen people” that were to redeem the world from oppression. Focusing on the fractions between social democracy and communism, Znamenski explores why, historically, socialism became associated with social engineering and centralized planning. He explains the rise of the New Left in the 1960s and its role in fostering the cultural left that came to privilege race and identity over class. Exploring the global retreat of the left in the 1980s–1990s and the “great neoliberalism scare,” Znamenski also analyzes the subsequent renaissance of socialism in wake of the 2007–2008 crisis.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: The Varieties of the Left Experience Chapter 1: Religion of Modernity: How an English Textile Baron and a French Aristocrat Jump Started the Socialist Creed Chapter 2: “Sabbath of History”: Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and Moses Hess Make Socialism “Scientific” Chapter 3: Great Schism: Social Democracy, Radical Cosmopolitans, and War Socialism (1870s-1920s) Chapter 4: Prophecy of the World Revolution and Nationalist Temptations, 1917-1930s Chapter 5: National Bolshevism: Stalin’s Soviet Union (1929-1953) Chapter 6: True Believers, Fellow Travelers, and Dissenters (1920s-1940s) Chapter 7: Creating Community: National Socialist Biopolitics in Germany, 1933-1945 Chapter 8: “Regime of Goodness”: Social Democracy and the Swedish Model, 1920s-1990s Chapter 9: Blood and Soil in the Palestine Desert: Kibbutz Socialism, 1920s-1970s Chapter 10: The East is Red: Communism in China, North Korea, and Cambodia Chapter 11: African Socialism: Tanzanian “Village Socialism” and Zimbabwe Ethno-Racial State Chapter 12: The Western Left: “Third Way” and Neoliberalism, 1970s-2010s Chapter 13: Retreat of Socialism in the Soviet Union and China (1980s-2008) Chapter 14: How Marxism Became Cultural: Frankfurt School, British Cultural Studies, and the New Left Chapter 15: The Cultural Left and the “Curse” of the Western Civilization, 1960s-2010s Conclusion: From Left Melancholia to New Militancy

About the Author :
Andrei Znamenski is professor of history at the University of Memphis.

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Andrei Znamenski's history is told with verse combined with scholarship, comparable to old classics such as Wilson's To the Finland Station and Kolakowski 's Main Currents of Marxism. Any fair-minded leftist will be brought up short. Read it. Andrei Znamenski, who experienced socialism firsthand, recalls the murder, mayhem, ethnic cleansing, arbitrary detentions, corruption, starvation, labor camps, warfare, forced disappearances, and famine that resulted from Marxism and its various iterations and offshoots. Socialism as a Secular Creed meticulously traces the concrete consequences of the spread of these ideologies, which, he suggests, displaced traditional expressions of religion and established secular eschatologies. His rigorously researched account is not to be missed. Greatly erudite and richly detailed, Andrei Znamenski’s Socialism as a Secular Creed is an important addition to the literature on history’s most popular idea about how society ought to be organized. Andrei Znamenski writes in the introduction to Socialism as a Secular Creed, “When I embarked on this project of galloping through the 150 years of socialism’s history I never suspected that it would be such an exciting and intellectually challenging venture.” In more than 400 pages, he provides a tour de force of historical knowledge and analysis of philosophy, religion, and culture. Znamenski argues that socialism is a form of political religion – a “secular creed” or surrogate religion that was rooted in utopians ideas of progress and science.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781498557306
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books
  • Height: 228 mm
  • No of Pages: 494
  • Spine Width: 41 mm
  • Weight: 938 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1498557309
  • Publisher Date: 29 Jan 2021
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: A Modern Global History
  • Width: 161 mm


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