Dictatorship, State Planning, and Social Theory in the German Democratic Republic - Caldwell, Peter C. (Rice University, Houston)

This book examines the way communist East Germany worked from the point of view of its experts in law, economics, philosophy and cybernetics. The state-socialist countries aimed for a post-capitalist modernization, which they hoped to achieve by way of dictatorship. This failed combination of dictatorship and social transformation contains lessons that remain relevant today.