Councils and democracy: in search of participation and socialization

Abstract

In the preface in which he introduces us to Luciano Cavini Martorano's book, Joachim Hirsch observes that the collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of the last century represented, for many liberal and conservative intellectuals, the historical “victory” of capitalism and, consequently, the “end of history” for movements and political parties identified with the construction of a socialist project – even more so, for those who defended the constitution of communism