ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the emergence of late socialist globalism in Czechoslovakia, focusing on how Marxist-Leninist thinkers framed global issues such as ecological crises, disarmament, and problems of economic development. Drawing on conferences, scholarly discourse, and contemporary texts, the study reveals a vision of socialism as a superior civilization capable of managing planetary challenges through science, technology, plan, and forecasting. The chapter highlights how concepts like the noosphere and anthropo-ecological complex were used to project a socialist-designed global future. While the discourse of late socialist globalism was eventually marginalized, it offers valuable insights into the intellectual strategies of actually existing socialism and its utopian ambitions amid late Cold War dynamics.
