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Book review: Soumitra Sharma and Mato Mikić ; THE LOST CAUSE: SOCIALISM DRIFTED IN OBLIVION, Sveučilišna tiskara d.o.o., 2019.

This is the kind of book which must be read deeply, brooded over, assessed internally and argued externally. In the book, which is enormously scholarly, though completely unassuming in its erudition, and so persuasive through formal opinions and clarity of conclusions, authors Soumitra Sharma and Mato Mikić present in an eclectic manner their economic interpretation of the history of socialism, for it has, as they point out firmly in the title, 'drifted into oblivion'. A correct interpretation of history is important because it has a bearing on our future conduct. The virtue of this work is that the authors traced causal relations between economic and non-economic events by combining theoretical premises of socialism with purely empirical viewpoints that came out of scientific proficiency and the experience of living in the age of socialist aspirations. The authors, proven men of a penetrating intellect, the keenest scientific sensibility and a predilection for theoretical reasoning, found unlimited material for the social phenomenon called Socialism. Whether the reader inclines towards this topic (and/ or authors' comprehension of the philosophy and history of socialism) or not, he/ she cannot fail to find this book absorbing.

Socialism, history of economic thought, economi history, socio-economi environment

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