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Practicing the Good: Desire and Boredom in Soviet Socialism

Practicing the Good: Desire and Boredom in Soviet Socialism

Chukhrov, Keti

Hardcover

Series: E-Flux

PhilosophyRussian & Former Soviet Union ArtSocial Movements

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ISBN10: 1517909600
ISBN13: 9781517909604
Publisher: E Flux
Published: Sep 1 2020
Pages: 304
Language: English

A philosophical consideration of Soviet Socialism that reveals the hidden desire for capitalism in contemporary anticapitalist discourse and theory

This book, a philosophical consideration of Soviet socialism, is not meant simply to revisit the communist past; its aim, rather, is to witness certain zones where capitalism's domination is resisted--the zones of countercapitalist critique, civil society agencies, and theoretical provisions of emancipation or progress--and to inquire to what extent those zones are in fact permeated by unconscious capitalism and thus unwittingly affirm the capitalist condition.

By means of the philosophical and politico-economical consideration of Soviet socialism of the 1960 and 1970s, this book manages to reveal the hidden desire for capitalism in contemporaneous anticapitalist discourse and theory. The research is marked by a broad cross-disciplinary approach based on political economy, philosophy, art theory, and cultural theory that redefines old Cold War and Slavic studies' views of the post-Stalinist years, as well as challenges the interpretations of this period of historical socialism in Western Marxist thought.

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