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Description:The present issue of “Crisis and Critique” is devoted to a very peculiarquestion “Stalin: What does the name stand for?” What is thus the motivationto gather today, and under the present condition, thinkers of differentnationalities, different theoretical backgrounds and from differentdisciplines to contribute to an exclusive issue on Stalin under sucha title?An immediate reaction, maybe a rather common one, to the title ofthe present issue might be: We all know what the name of Stalin standsfor. It stands for one of the most horrific and violent phases within thehistory of exploring and putting to work an at least allegedly emancipatorypolitics. Politically, it stands for the explosion of state terror, for massmurder, crimes that still seem to go well beyond belief, and for themoment (of truth?) where an (allegedly) emancipatory collective political project (communism, as conceived by Lenin) turns and perverts its self-declared universalist dimension into a cruel universalism of violence, paranoia and executions, where the only thing that is structurally shared by anyone – with the exception of one, that is: Stalin – is that he or she might for no reasons at all be deported, sentenced to death, sent to Gulag, or something brutally alike. This moment is precisely the moment that Slavoj Žižek justifiably referred to as the moment when the Communist Party of the Soviet Union committed suicide. In this sense, content-wise the title of the present issue is peculiar. Because from such a – today common sense and commonsensical – perspective, Stalin is a tyrant, a totalitarian tyrant and one of the greatest criminals of all time. But if one, and there is no question that this is true, states that the Stalinist state was a tyrannical and terrorist state what remains unthought, and what is peculiarly left aside, is the very reason for this veryconstitution. To put this in very simple terms: Why did the Stalinist stateof terror evolve? Why did it constitute itself as it did? Was it a contingentand arbitrary deviation, or a structurally necessary outcome?We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Crisis & Critique: Stalin: What Does the Name Stand For?. To get started finding Crisis & Critique: Stalin: What Does the Name Stand For?, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Publisher: Dialectical Materialism Collective

Release: 2016

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Description: The present issue of “Crisis and Critique” is devoted to a very peculiarquestion “Stalin: What does the name stand for?” What is thus the motivationto gather today, and under the present condition, thinkers of differentnationalities, different theoretical backgrounds and from differentdisciplines to contribute to an exclusive issue on Stalin under sucha title?An immediate reaction, maybe a rather common one, to the title ofthe present issue might be: We all know what the name of Stalin standsfor. It stands for one of the most horrific and violent phases within thehistory of exploring and putting to work an at least allegedly emancipatorypolitics. Politically, it stands for the explosion of state terror, for massmurder, crimes that still seem to go well beyond belief, and for themoment (of truth?) where an (allegedly) emancipatory collective political project (communism, as conceived by Lenin) turns and perverts its self-declared universalist dimension into a cruel universalism of violence, paranoia and executions, where the only thing that is structurally shared by anyone – with the exception of one, that is: Stalin – is that he or she might for no reasons at all be deported, sentenced to death, sent to Gulag, or something brutally alike. This moment is precisely the moment that Slavoj Žižek justifiably referred to as the moment when the Communist Party of the Soviet Union committed suicide. In this sense, content-wise the title of the present issue is peculiar. Because from such a – today common sense and commonsensical – perspective, Stalin is a tyrant, a totalitarian tyrant and one of the greatest criminals of all time. But if one, and there is no question that this is true, states that the Stalinist state was a tyrannical and terrorist state what remains unthought, and what is peculiarly left aside, is the very reason for this veryconstitution. To put this in very simple terms: Why did the Stalinist stateof terror evolve? Why did it constitute itself as it did? Was it a contingentand arbitrary deviation, or a structurally necessary outcome?We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Crisis & Critique: Stalin: What Does the Name Stand For?. To get started finding Crisis & Critique: Stalin: What Does the Name Stand For?, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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