Politics for a Rational Left subject-art-culture Afterlives of Chinese Communism comprises

Afterlives of Chinese Communism comprises essays from over fifty world-renowned scholars in the China field

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The articles in this reader represent the way these tasks have been confronted during the seventies and eighties

These questions animate Dmitrii Furman’s Imitation Democracy

Politics for a Rational Left subject-art-culture Afterlives of Chinese Communism comprisesIn this book, Eric Hobsbawm, one of Britain's most distinguished historians, tackles the current impasse of the left. In a series of cogent and elegant contributions he elaborates a strategy for the defeat of Thatcherism and the opening of a new era of progressive and democratic politics. Hobsbawm situates the left's recent difficulties within a longer historical perspective: the epochal crisis of the 'classic labour movement' created by new patterns