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Comment on the view that socialism in the 21st century may be reborn as anti-capitalism.

  • UPSC 2014
  • 20 marks
  • Political Ideologies

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When the Soviet bloc fell, Francis Fukuyama's "end of history" thesis (1989; book 1992) read liberal capitalism as history's final form, and socialism as state ownership lost its working model. The view under comment holds that socialism returns not as a blueprint for planning but as anti-capitalism — a critique of markets, inequality and ecological…

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