On Historical Regression: A Note at the Occasion
of the 170th Anniversary of the Manifesto Cover Image

О историјској регресији: напомена поводом 170-годишњице Манифеста
On Historical Regression: A Note at the Occasion of the 170th Anniversary of the Manifesto

Author(s): Rastko Močnik
Subject(s): Political history, Sociology of Culture, Sociology of Politics
Published by: Српско социолошко друштво
Keywords: Restauration of capitalism;Yugoslav critical left;post-capitalism

Summary/Abstract: Limitations of the Manifesto (absence of the concept of “social formation”; capitalism as “homoficient”) are treated as symptoms of a certain leftist theory with important practical political consequences. They are related to the deficiencies of the Yugoslav critical left (the belief that socialist revolution is irreversible; the underestimation of the main contradiction of post-capitalism: “capitalist processes / socialist processes and practices”) that prevented Yugoslav leftists adequately to confront the restauration of capitalism.

  • Issue Year: 52/2018
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 498-522
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: English, Serbian