{"product_id":"socialism-as-a-secular-creed-9781498557306","title":"Socialism as a Secular Creed","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndrei Znamenski argues that socialism arose out of activities of secularized apocalyptic sects, the Enlightenment tradition, and dislocations produced by the Industrial Revolution. He examines how, by the 1850s, Marx and Engels made the socialist creed scientific by linking it to history laws and inventing the proletariatthe chosen people that were to redeem the world from oppression. Focusing on the fractions between social democracy and communism, Znamenski explores why, historically, socialism became associated with social engineering and centralized planning. He explains the rise of the New Left in the 1960s and its role in fostering the cultural left that came to privilege race and identity over class. Exploring the global retreat of the left in the 1980s1990s and the great neoliberalism scare, Znamenski also analyzes the subsequent renaissance of socialism in wake of the 20072008 crisis. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndrei Znamenski's history is told with verse combined with scholarship, comparable to old classics such as Wilson's To the Finland Station and Kołakowski 's Main Currents of Marxism. Any fair-minded leftist will be brought up short. Read it.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, professor emerita, University of Illinois at Chicago\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndrei Znamenski, who experienced socialism firsthand, recalls the murder, mayhem, ethnic cleansing, arbitrary detentions, corruption, starvation, labor camps, warfare, forced disappearances, and famine that resulted from Marxism and its various iterations and offshoots. Socialism as a Secular Creed meticulously traces the concrete consequences of the spread of these ideologies, which, he suggests, displaced traditional expressions of religion and established secular eschatologies. His rigorously researched account is not to be missed.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Allen Mendenhall, Troy University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The Varieties of the Left Experience \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Religion of Modernity: How an English Textile Baron and a French Aristocrat Jump Started the Socialist Creed \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: “Sabbath of History”: Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and Moses Hess Make Socialism “Scientific” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Great Schism: Social Democracy, Radical Cosmopolitans, and War Socialism (1870s-1920s) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Prophecy of the World Revolution and Nationalist Temptations, 1917-1930s \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: National Bolshevism: Stalin’s Soviet Union (1929-1953) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6: True Believers, Fellow Travelers, and Dissenters (1920s-1940s) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7: Creating Community: National Socialist Biopolitics in Germany, 1933-1945 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8: “Regime of Goodness”: Social Democracy and the Swedish Model, 1920s-1990s \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9: Blood and Soil in the Palestine Desert: Kibbutz Socialism, 1920s-1970s \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10: The East is Red: Communism in China, North Korea, and Cambodia \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11: African Socialism: Tanzanian “Village Socialism” and Zimbabwe Ethno-Racial State \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12: The Western Left: “Third Way” and Neoliberalism, 1970s-2010s \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 13: Retreat of Socialism in the Soviet Union and China (1980s-2008) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 14: How Marxism Became Cultural: Frankfurt School, British Cultural Studies, and the New Left \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 15: The Cultural Left and the “Curse” of the Western Civilization, 1960s-2010s \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion: From Left Melancholia to New Militancy\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040771932503,"sku":"9781498557306","price":103.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498557306.jpg?v=1750947796","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/socialism-as-a-secular-creed-9781498557306","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}