Marxian Theory and Socialism in Turkey

ISBN-13: 9783639136074 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 696 str.

Ercan Gndoan

Opis

The book deals with the Marxian Theory as a whole and socialist theory in Turkey, following the example of the Socialist Journal Aydınlık. It demonstrates that there is a gap between the premises of the Marxian theory and the socialist theorising and practice in Turkey. This gap is partially perceived and tried to be surpassed by strategic searchs for a revolutonary change. However, these searches too suffer from another gap between the Kemalist experience of the country and the Marxist theory. As a solution, socialist theory and practice develops different variants of Maoist revolutonary strategies in the form of popular revolution. Main debates within the socialist circles therefore concentrate on choosing and defending the most valid revolutonary strategies, each of which is based on different theorisings of the social and historical structures of Turkey and the Ottoman Empire. In order to justify the preferred revolutonary strategy, adherents of each socialist line and sect demonstrate his or her historical and social data by using Marxian and Leninist texts. The book follows the debates on the behalf of the Marxian theory itself.

O autorze

Ercan Gundogan studied spatial planning, urban politics,
political science and public administration at METU, Ankara.
Scope of his research areas covers social and political theory,
political economy, world politics and the theory of socialism.
He is a professor of international relations and a
contributer to Afrika newspaper in Cyprus.