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245 10 $aSocialism, Capitalism and Alternatives
260 $aLondon$bUCL Press$c2019
300 $a252
520 $aIn 1989 the Berlin Wall came down. Two years later the Soviet Union disintegrated. The collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union discredited the idea of socialism for generations to come. It was seen as representing the final and irreversible victory of capitalism. This triumphal dominance was barely challenged until the 2008 financial crisis threw the Western world into a state of turmoil.

Through analysis of post-socialist Russia and Central and Eastern Europe, as well as of the United Kingdom, China and the United States, Socialism, Capitalism and Alternatives confronts the difficulty we face in articulating alternatives to capitalism, socialism and threatening populist regimes. Beginning with accounts of the impact of capitalism on countries left behind by the planned economies, the volume moves on to consider how China has become a beacon of dynamic economic growth, aggressively expanding its global influence.

The final section of the volume poses alternatives to the ideological dominance of neoliberalism in the West. Since the 2008 financial crisis, demands for social change have erupted across the world. Exposing the failure of neoliberalism in the United Kingdom and examining recent social movements in Europe and the United States, the closing chapters identify how elements of past ideas are re-emerging, among them Keynesianism and radical socialism. As those chapters indicate, these ideas might well have potential to mobilise support and challenge the dominance of neoliberalism.

536 $aKnowledge Unlatched$c102002$bKU Select 2018: HSS Frontlist Books
546 $aEnglish.
650 7 $aPolitical ideologies$2bicssc
650 7 $aSocialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies$2bicssc
653 $asocialism
653 $aneoliberalisn
653 $acapitalism
653 $apolitical science
653 $acommunism
653 $apolitical ideologies
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