1989 as a cautionary tale: Towards a Congress-mukt pluralism

June 05, 2014 11:00

By the time the Soviet Union collapsed in 1989, there existed in Western Europe and most other parts of the world, a Marxist intellectual culture independent of (and vehemently critical of) Soviet-style socialism. Paris and Frankfurt nurtured Marxist (or marxisant) intellectuals who thought the Soviet Union was a political abomination, whose socialist aspirations and prescriptions shared nothing with the reality of 'actually existing socialism'. Read Mukul Kesavan's piece on the Telegraph.

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