Yunjong Kim

The Failure of Socialism in South Korea (eBook, ePUB)

1945-2007

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a detailed exammination of the reasons why socialism has failed in South Korea, going beyond the generally accepted view that the left failed because of suppression by the state. It proffers is that the real reason why socialism failed lay with its inability to develop beyond revolutionary socialism and build a more pragmatic social democracy that could develop a broad alliance within Korean society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317428862
• Artikelnr.: 43404546

Autorenporträt

Yunjong Kim is a South Korean born practical political scientist. He is a visiting Senior Lecturer at the Northern University of Malaysia.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Challenging the Conventional Approach 2. Social Democracy in the Core and Periphery 3. Socialism in the Liberation Period (1945
50) 4. The Cold War and Its Impact on Socialism (1950s
1960s) 5. Socialism under the Military Dictatorship (1962
87) 6. The New Left and the Revived Socialism (1987
99) 7. The Democratic Labour Party (2000
7) Conclusion