‘Feasible Socialism’ Revisited

Alec Nove
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Alec Nove: University of Glasgow

Chapter 16 in Studies in Economics and Russia, 1990, pp 232-243 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract My book did have some effect. It has been translated into Italian, French, Spanish, Swedish, and now into Chinese. So it achieved its object of stimulating discussion about what socialists should regard as feasible, as well as on the relevance (or irrelevance) of what Marx and his followers thought about socialism in general, socialist planning in particular. The book was being written during 1980–1. Reviews, some of them highly critical, have appeared. Much has changed in the world. Yugoslavia and Romania, each in different ways, are in acute crisis. Poland under Jaruzelski has still to emerge from its own crisis. The Hungarian economy has also run into trouble. Meanwhile Gorbachev has placed the USSR on the road to ‘radical reform’, with an explicit link between economic and political-cultural change. China too is in the throes of large-scale reforms, which were in their early stages in 1981. Meanwhile in the West the forces of the anti-socialist right have gained strength and, particularly in Mrs Thatcher’s Britain, are actively engaged in unmixing the mixed economy and privatizing everything they can, including social welfare. In many countries of the third world, too, one sees a reaction against socialist ideas and institutions.

Keywords: Private Enterprise; Radical Reform; Personal Utility; Cooperative Enterprise; Urban Public Transport (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1990
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-10991-3_16

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