The scylla and charybdis of socialism.

Asserts that proclaiming the death of socialism may be premature because many of its ideas are constantly being embraced by Third World nations still in development. Ideas are not fully gone from the collapsed former Soviet Union and the EasternBloc countries; History of three forms of socialism: Sovietism; Social democracies; Attraction of socialism to Western political and intellectual elites; Social democracy will score gains in Eastern Europe; Western attributes; More.