The rise of nationalist populism in some of the world’s richest countries has prompted urgent analyses of contemporary capitalism. Dr Abby Innes discusses her new book "Late Soviet Britain: Why Materialist Utopias Fail", which for the first time explores how the Leninist and neoliberal revolutions have failed for many of the same reasons. These doctrines may have been utterly opposed in their political values, but when we grasp the kinship between their forms of economic argument and their practical strategies for government, we can better understand the causes of state failure in both systems as well as their calamitous results.
Abby Innes is Associate Professor in Political Economy in the European Institute at LSE. www.lse.ac.uk/european-instit...
"Late Soviet Britain: Why Materialist Utopias Fail", Cambridge University Press, September 2023 www.cambridge.org/core/books/...
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30 ноя 2023