Rudolf Bahro, Alternative: a critique of actually existing socialism
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The book Alternative: a critique of actually existing socialism is an attempt to criticize the Soviet system from left-wing positions by a leading East German dissident. By the alternative, the author means a society based on broad self-government, for the creation of which the best conditions existed in Central Eastern Europe in the late 1970s.