Callinicos's new book is a frontal assault on the widely acceptedidea that the East European revolutions of 1989 mark the death ofsocialism.
In an attempt to vindicate the classical Marxist tradition, Callinicos argues that socialism in this tradition can only comefrom below, through the self-activity of the working class.Stalinism from this standpoint was a 'counter-revolution', erectingat the end of the 1920s a state capitalist regime on...