Socialist Register 2018: Rethinking Democracy
336 pp, $29 pbk, ISBN 978-1-58367-671-4
Edited by Greg Albo and Leo Panitch
Reviewed by Sean Ledwith
“This latest addition to one of the most prestigious journals on the left is a timely examination of the relationship between socialism and democracy. Decades of Stalinist distortion in Eastern Europe still leave a residual notion in the minds of many that these two concepts are, in fact, antithetical. Throughout the era of the cold war, the Western states propagated the related idea that only capitalism was capable of securing the individual freedoms that are synonymous with the idea of democracy….”
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