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For Pete's sake, first we get Bhaskar Sunkara pontificating in a NY Times op-ed titled "Socialism’s Future May Be Its Past" and now we get a another load of crap in The Nation:
Given that these major pillars of 19th-century socialism crumbled in the early 20th century, one might ask: Can the idea of socialism still motivate our actions, or should we work through our “left melancholy” and acknowledge it as a beloved object whose loss we must mourn and ultimately leave behind? Honneth is committed to the former position, but he insists that socialists need (among other things) to move beyond Marx’s totalistic depiction of capitalism and abandon his belief that it will inevitably be overthrown by a revolutionary class of workers. They must also recognize, Honneth asserts, that whatever socialist society emerges in capitalism’s wake will still need the market mechanisms and political practices that were developed in the liberal bourgeois era.
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