New World Disorder: The Leninist ExtinctionUniversity of California Press, 2023年4月28日 - 345 頁 Communism, or as Ken Jowitt prefers, Leninism, has attracted, repelled, mystified, and terrified millions for nearly a century. In his brilliant, timely, and controversial study, New World Disorder, Jowitt identifies and interprets the extraordinary character of Leninist regimes, their political corruption, extinction, and highly unsettling legacy. Earlier attempts to grasp the essence of Leninism have treated the Soviet experience as either a variant of or alien to Western history, an approach that robs Leninism of much of its intriguing novelty. Jowitt instead takes a "polytheist" approach, Weberian in tenor and terms, comparing the Leninist to the liberal experience in the West, rather than assimilating it or alienating it. Approaching the Leninist phenomenon in these terms and spirit emphasizes how powerful the imperatives set by the West for the rest of the world are as sources of emulation, assimilation, rejection, and adaptation; how unyielding premodern forms of identification, organization, and action are; how novel, powerful, and dangerous charisma as a mode of organized indentity and action can be. The progression from essay to essay is lucid and coherent. The first six essays reject the fundamental assumptions about social change that inform the work of modernization theorists. Written between 1974 and 1990, they are, we know now, startingly prescient. The last three essays, written in early 1991, are the most controversial: they will be called alarmist, pessimistic, apocalyptic. They challenge the complacent, optimistic, and self-serving belief that the world is being decisively shaped in the image of the West—that the end of history is at hand. |
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第 1 到 5 筆結果,共 48 筆
第 2 頁
... importance of historical contin- gency quite clear.2 One does not have to slight history or soci- ology in order to make the central point : for the comparativist ( in contrast to the theologian ) , Christ's innovation was to com- bine ...
... importance of historical contin- gency quite clear.2 One does not have to slight history or soci- ology in order to make the central point : for the comparativist ( in contrast to the theologian ) , Christ's innovation was to com- bine ...
第 9 頁
... importance . Stalin once again turned to the question of leadership and made the following critical statement : " After ... important thing . " 16 Let us now draw some conclusions about Leninist organiza- tion as a novel form of charisma ...
... importance . Stalin once again turned to the question of leadership and made the following critical statement : " After ... important thing . " 16 Let us now draw some conclusions about Leninist organiza- tion as a novel form of charisma ...
第 10 頁
... importance of the notion of the correct line in Leninism is that it is not a typical Party program . Instead , it parallels the organizational character of the Party , itself an amalgam of modern and charismatic elements . The " correct ...
... importance of the notion of the correct line in Leninism is that it is not a typical Party program . Instead , it parallels the organizational character of the Party , itself an amalgam of modern and charismatic elements . The " correct ...
第 12 頁
... importance . The first I term developmental tasks . For current purposes , it is crucial to understand that a Leninist elite's adoption of a specific task causes particular types of po- litical uncertainties and , consequently ...
... importance . The first I term developmental tasks . For current purposes , it is crucial to understand that a Leninist elite's adoption of a specific task causes particular types of po- litical uncertainties and , consequently ...
第 13 頁
... important step in coming to grips with the ability of Leninism to operate effectively in a peasant - status milieu , but it is inadequate alone . Two other aspects of the charisma - tradition relationship— which to the best of my ...
... important step in coming to grips with the ability of Leninism to operate effectively in a peasant - status milieu , but it is inadequate alone . Two other aspects of the charisma - tradition relationship— which to the best of my ...
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POLITICAL CULTURE IN LENINIST REGIMES | 50 |
INCLUSION | 88 |
NEOTRADITIONALISM | 121 |
MOSCOW CENTRE | 159 |
GORBACHEV BOLSHEVIK OR MENSHEVIK? | 220 |
THE LENINIST EXTINCTION | 249 |
THE LENINIST LEGACY | 284 |
A WORLD WITHOUT LENINISM | 306 |
Index | 333 |
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