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Article: Communism and Modernity.
- Article from:
- Daedalus
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
- Author:
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THE COMMUNIST EPISODE, central to the historical experience of the twentieth century but brought to an abrupt end by unforeseen developments, is now widely dismissed as a failed revolt against modernity. [1] For the victors of the Cold War and for the emerging post-Communist elites, the most convenient way to close the book on Communism is to insist on its pre-, anti-, or pseudo-modern character. The issues this ideological stance excludes from consideration become more visible if we allow for the possibility that the defunct model might--for all its disastrous flaws and irrationalities--have been a distinctive but ultimately self-destructive version of modernity, rather ...
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