Istorijsko raskršće socijalizma
Socialism at a Historical Crossroads

Summary/Abstract: Numerous indications suggest that socialism is currently undergoing one o f the gravest crises in its history. By its characteristics and possible consequences, this crisis surpasses, for example, the crisis of 1914 and the collapse of the Second International, or the crisis and schism within the international workers ’ movement in the 1920s, brought about by Stalinist involutions. This hypothesis is substantiated by the following indicators: (a ) the crisis has affected all the major segments and groupings of the "socialist world ”, not just some of them, as was the case before; (b ) the crisis has been caused by a markedly conceptual, ideological-political insufficiency, rather than by partial mistakes or setbacks; (c) the crisis is characterized by a total blocking of the innovative potentials of socialist forces in general. The author identifies the main foci of crisis in the "socialist world ” and reveals some of its causes. The suggestion is made that what is occurring is primarily a crisis of socialist forces and of certain models of socialism rather than of the fundamental idea of socialism.

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