Thoughts on the Causes of the Collapse of the Socialist System

Jan Adam
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Jan Adam: The University of Calgary

Chapter 1 in Why did the Socialist System Collapse in Central and Eastern European Countries?, 1995, pp 3-17 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In this first chapter 1 am going to present a broad spectrum of views about the causes of the collapse of the socialist system. Of course, this will be only a selected group of opinions. I will present not only authors who explicitly discuss the causes of the collapse after it occurred or just before, but also others who predicted the collapse on the basis of some theory. The viability of socialism was discussed even before it was established. Once Marx and Engels had formulated their historical materialism which tried to find regularities in the development of social systems, and had expressed the idea that capitalism would be replaced by socialism, and later by communism as the final system, the debate about the viability of socialism began.

Keywords: Private Property; Liberal Democracy; Private Ownership; Socialist Country; Social Engineering (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1995
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-24239-9_1

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