Socialism: The 100-Year-Old Misnomer

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-74720-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 349, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Studies in Critical Social Sciences

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 Neacsu 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, Neacsu 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Neac&

Neacsu, Dana

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Sozialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie

Über Autor(innen)

Dana Neacsu, 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).