دانلود کتاب کمونیسم و فرهنگ

Communism, in all its historical incarnations, was an attempt to make reality out of several political myths. First and foremost, it was a redemptive creed. In his book The Captive Mind (1953), Czesław Miłosz called the New Faith. It invoked rationality and even scientific status but was in fact what Feuerbach had called, referring to Hegel, a form of rationalized mysticism. Following this line of thought, associated with Alain Besançon, Robert Conquest, Evgeny Dobrenko, Leszek Kolakowski, Stephen Kotkin, Martin Malia, Andrei Siniavski, Yuri Slezkine, and Robert C. Tucker, we have elaborated our own perspective. We see communism as a logocratic order in which ideology relies on what Weberian sociologist Alvin W. Gouldner called the paleo-symbolic emotional infrastructure made up of longings, passions, expectations, and illusions. Without grasping the meanings of these mythological constellations, one cannot make sense of the lyrical illusion, as Andre Malraux called this fascination with utopian radicalism.