328 Pages
by
Routledge
328 Pages
by
Routledge
297 Pages
by
Routledge
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Raymond Aron's In Defense of Decadent Europe was first conceived at a time of great uncertainty for the Western democracies. The postwar economic boom had been interrupted by "stagflation," while communist and socialist parties in Italy and France were powerful factors in Europe's political landscape. Aron's book has a threefold purpose: the analysis of the Soviet Russian regime and its... Read more
part I Europe mystified by Marxism-Leninism; 1: Marx’s messianism and its misadventures; 2: Ideocracy: Marxism as state ideology; 3: Western Marxism, or the Vulgate; part II Europe unaware of its own superiority; 4: Socialist capital accumulation; 5: The undiscoverable socialism; 6: Imperialism without empire; part III Europe its own victim; 7: No more miracles; 8: Self-destruction by the liberal democracies?; 9: Crisis of civilization?; 10: Two specters are haunting Europe: freedom and the Red Army
Biography
Alan Rosenthal
