Die Umweltbedingungen auf der koreanischen Halbinsel sind alles andere als ideal für ein einfaches Überleben. Dabei erfordert die landwirtschaftliche Produktion viel Mühe. Obwohl sie im Lauf ihrer Geschichte schwere Zeiten durchstehen mussten, konnten die Südkoreaner, nach Erlangung ihrer...

Against the usual argument heard most frequently on the left, that there is no subject for a radical politics together with its form of political mobilization, there is - but in the absence of a radical leftist project, this subject has in the past transferred, and in many instances is still...

In welchem Verhältnis stehen soziale Ungleichheit und Lebensführung? Das ist die übergreifende Frage der Autor_innen, die Phänomene wie Milliardäre in der Weltpolitik, das Refugiumsbürgertum in der DDR oder Formen investiver Statusarbeit innerhalb eines Spannungsfeldes von Selbst- und...

Political regimes influence contents of education and criteria used to select and evaluate students. We study the impact of a socialist education on the likelihood of obtaining a college degree and on several labor market outcomes by exploiting the reorganization of the school system in East...

Conditions of malnutrition, conflict, or a combination of both characterize many Arab countries, but this was not always so. As in much of the developing world, the immediate post-independence period represented an age of hope and relative prosperity. But imperialism did not sleep while these...

In a witty, irreverent op-ed piece that went viral, Kristen Ghodsee argued that women had better sex under socialism. The response was tremendous -- clearly she articulated something many women had sensed for years: the problem is with capitalism, not with us. Ghodsee, an acclaimed ethnographer...

Twentieth-century socialism -- On socialism : association of free individuals -- Commodity production -- Simple commodity production -- Commodity production and socialism in Marx's followers -- On socialist accounting -- Anarchist communism -- Concerning guild socialism -- On market socialism --...

Globalization under and after socialism : a comparative and historical perspective -- The limits of autarchy in the periphery : trade, planning, and East European industrialization, 1946-69 -- Upgrading socialism : technology, debt, and East European reform, 1968-85 -- Socialist...

Between pink Hollywood and the black wave -- A change in rhythm -- Modernism and the avant-garde in the struggle for socialism -- Life in the American style -- Conclusion. The American dream the Yugoslav way?

This easy-to-read book explores the fundamental ideas of socialism as a prelude to the critical reappraisal of their implementation in the Soviet revolutionary experiment. The book then discusses the economic changes of the neoliberal era.--from the back cover