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 25 筆
第 14 頁
... refer to the examples of charisma discussed earlier : Christ lived at a time of great turmoil ( i.e. , social mobilization ) in Israel , but it was his status as a rabbi and student of Mosaic law that made him intelligible to others ...
... refer to the examples of charisma discussed earlier : Christ lived at a time of great turmoil ( i.e. , social mobilization ) in Israel , but it was his status as a rabbi and student of Mosaic law that made him intelligible to others ...
第 19 頁
... refer to . For the majority , the decision to join the Party is likely to be based more on the absence of alter- natives , decisions made by " significant others , " career considerations , and so on . " Composite " types are more ...
... refer to . For the majority , the decision to join the Party is likely to be based more on the absence of alter- natives , decisions made by " significant others , " career considerations , and so on . " Composite " types are more ...
第 21 頁
... refer to a " standarized public mode of interaction , " " social markets , " or " combinatorial power . " However , I do not think this language is inconsistent with the meaning of his argument . an integral part of the West's unique ...
... refer to a " standarized public mode of interaction , " " social markets , " or " combinatorial power . " However , I do not think this language is inconsistent with the meaning of his argument . an integral part of the West's unique ...
第 24 頁
... refer- ences were the king and people — an almost paradigmatic status relationship ( personal and hierarchical ) .43 The Party's major 42. As is well known , the line was anything but " correct " in many respects . The Romanian Party's ...
... refer- ences were the king and people — an almost paradigmatic status relationship ( personal and hierarchical ) .43 The Party's major 42. As is well known , the line was anything but " correct " in many respects . The Romanian Party's ...
第 25 頁
... refers to the " old truth ... that an ingenious error is more fruitful for science than stupid accuracy . " 44 With due modification , one could argue that Leninism as a particular approach to social change in a peasant country is ...
... refers to the " old truth ... that an ingenious error is more fruitful for science than stupid accuracy . " 44 With due modification , one could argue that Leninism as a particular approach to social change in a peasant country is ...
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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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