New Realism, New Barbarism

In this radical and controversial overview of the post-communist world, Boris Kagarlitsky argues that the very success of neoliberal capitalism has made traditional socialism all the more necessary and feasible.

Kagarlitsky argues that leftists exaggerate the importance of the ''objective'' aspects of the ''new reality'' - globalisation - and the weakening of the state, while underestimating the i...