Socialism After Stalinism

A Socialist Outlook Pamphlet Part of the extraordinary impact of socialist ideas this century is that they not only help to imagine the future but also offer to all an opportunity to build a chosen future. This willingness to imagine and plan for the future lies at the heart of the success of this excellent little pamphlet.

Itoffersa lucid and straightforward socialist analysis of the new world epoch which has opened up with the collapse of Stalinism and the transformation of Eastern Europe. It does this calmly and in the teeth of the cynicism of liberal journalism and analysis itarticulates a socialist future with confidence.

“Respect for basic materialist values of evidence and facts has to be are starting point. Those who throw away the Marxist baby with the Stalinist bathwater will soon enough end up either demoralised or defenders of the status quo”. A basic strength of the pamphlet is that in clear prose it addresses itself to some of the key issues that the collapse of Stalinism has opened up for socialist activists: Planning and the market, Choice and Democracy, Efficiency and innovation, Reds and Greens. As a starting point for helping ordinary people to realise that here is a socialist alternative to Social democracy and labourism on all these issues the pamphlet is invaluable.

In a clear and undogmatic way it is not afraid to imagine and describe a socialist future - and building a future from the present is what socialism has always been about.

Socialism After Stalinism A Socialist Outlook Pamphlet £1 Available from PD contact addresses AN REABHLOID Page 9

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