The crisis of the German left
Subtitle: the PDS, Stalinism and the global economy
By: Peter Thompson
Series: Monographs in German history -- v. 13
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 136
Subjects: Partei des Demokratischen Sozialismus (Germany); Communism -- Germany (East) -- History; Globalization; Germany -- Politics and government -- 1990-; Germany -- Economic conditions -- 1990-; Germany -- Social conditions -- 1990-
Description: "Using Nietzsche's categories of monumentalist, antiquarian and critical history, the author examines the historical and theoretical contexts of the collapse of the GDR in 1989 and looks at the positive and negative legacies of the GDR for the PDS (the successor party to the East German Communists). He contends that the Stalinization of the GDR itself was the product not just of the Cold War but of a longer inter-systemic struggle between the competing primacies of politics and economics and that the end of the GDR has to be seen as a consequence of the global collapse of the social imperative under the pressure of the re-emergence of the market-state since the mid-1970s."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 126-132) and index