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Whose Millennium? Theirs or Ours?

  • ISBN-13: 9780853459460
  • Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: MONTHLY REVIEW PRESS
  • By Daniel Singer
  • Price: AUD $38.99
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  • Local release date: 12/09/1999
  • Format: Paperback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 302 pages Weight: 446g
  • Categories: Politics & government [JP]
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Written with droll wit and lyrical elegance, this visionary book challenges the chorus of resignation-the notion that there is no alternative, that profit is the best relationship between people, and that the market guarantees democracy. Daniel Singer insists that a more free and egalitarian society can be won, and he predicts that the new millennium will be an age of confrontation, not consensus, with Western Europe as a probable first battlefield. In social criticism of rare scope and insight, Singer probes the outcome of the Russian Revolution and Russia's post-1989 turmoil, the transformation of the Polish trade union movement Solidarity into a reactionary and clerical force, the failure of social democracy in Western Europe, the emergence of an unbalanced world after the collapse of one superpower, and the massive 1995 strikes and demonstrations in France-which, Singer argues, were the first revolt against the prevailing idea that there is no alternative to market stringency. As alternative, Singer calls for "realistic utopia": a politics engaged with present-day possibilities but daring to pursue a world beyond capitalism, one that would put into consistent practice the ideals of democracy and equality.
Daniel Singer is the European correspondent for The Nation.
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