Socialism: the 100-Year-Old Misnomer

Dana Neacşu (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

264 Seiten

2025
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-74720-3 (ISBN)

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This book redefines socialism by separating its democratic ideals from authoritarian misuses, offering an interdisciplinary analysis—grounded in law, political theory, political economy, and culture—that challenges common-sense assumptions and clarifies the mislabelling of Soviet-style regimes as socialist.

What if everything you thought you knew about socialism was wrong? Socialism: the 100-Year-Old Misnomer invites you to rethink a century of political and cultural myth-making. Dana Neacşu distinguishes real socialism—rooted in democracy and wealth redistribution—from its authoritarian counterfeit: Soviet-style state capitalism. Drawing on political theory, political economy, law, and culture, and using layered textual analysis, Neacşu exposes how language, ideology, and legal systems conspired to mislabel repression as revolution. Featuring rare visuals and sharp close readings, this book equips you to separate fact from fiction and rethink what justice, ownership, and power could truly mean.

Dana Neacşu, Ph.D., Director, Duquesne Center for Legal Information & Associate Professor of Legal Skills, and Adjunct Professor at Barnard College, has published monographs, translations, and articles on law and society, including The Bourgeois Charm of Karl Marx & the Ideological Irony of American Jurisprudence (Brill, 2019).

Erscheinungsdatum	11.11.2025
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Critical Social Sciences ; 349
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	567 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	90-04-74720-6 / 9004747206
ISBN-13	978-90-04-74720-3 / 9789004747203
Zustand	Neuware