Abstract: IN THE CLUTCHES OF WORLD CAPITALISM The internal tensions and contradictions that resulted in the disintegration of ‘existing socialism’ cannot, however, be fully explained by the immanent characteristics of the system. What ultimately decided its failure was the fact that the fundamental operational mode of the system, which professed itself socialist, did not, and could not, differ from the logic of world capitalism. (The countries of ‘existing socialism’ had to trade with the countries of ...
Publication Year: 2005
Publication Date: 2005-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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