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Author : Karl Kautsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UVA:X000034539
Author : David Childs
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0415221951
An incisive account of the impact of socialism on the life and politics of Europe and the former Soviet bloc in the twentieth century. It covers the origins of socialism in those countries where it had most impact.
Author : Bruno Coppieters,Kris Deschouwer,Michael Waller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135200411
This book examines the fortunes of social democracy since 1989 in the former GDR, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, setting the analysis in a broader European framework, and relating the current problems of social democracy in western Europe to developments in the east of the continent.
Author : Mike Makin-Waite
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Communism
ISBN : 191044877X
On the centenary of the Russian Revolution of 1917, Mike Makin-Waite surveys the history of the communist movement, tracking its origins in the Enlightenment, and through nineteenth-century socialism to the emergence of Marxism and beyond. As we emerge from the long winter of neoliberalism, and the search is on for ideas that can help shape a contemporary popular socialism, some of the questions that have preoccupied socialist thinkers throughout left history are once more being debated. Should the left press for reform and work through the state or should it focus on protest and a critique of the whole system? Is it possible to expand the liberal idea of democracy to include economic democracy? Which alliances require too great a compromise and which can help secure future change? Arguments on questions such as these have been raging since the mid-nineteenth century, and were the basis of the split between Social Democrats and Communists in the aftermath of the First World War. Mike Makin-Waite believes that revisiting these debates can help us to avoid some of the mistakes made in the past, and find new solutions to some of these age-old concerns. His argument is that the democratic and liberal counter-currents that have always existed within the communist movement have much to offer the left project today. This unorthodox account therefore tracks an alternative history that includes nineteenth-century revisionists such as Karl Kautsky, Menshevik opponents of Bolshevik oppression in 1917, Popular Front critiques of sectarianism in the 1930s, communist support for 1968's Prague Spring, and the turn to Gramsci and Eurocommunism in the 1970s. The aim of Communism and Democracy: history, debates and potentials is to recover some of the hard-won insights of the critical communist tradition, in the belief that they can still be of service to the twenty-first-century left.
Author : George Douglas Howard Cole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Socialism
ISBN : UOM:39076007049906
Author : Kenneth Wallace Colegrove
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Communism
ISBN : MINN:31951001772594L
Author : George Wilfried Hartmann,Roger Payne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Communism
ISBN : UIUC:30112076859161
Author : G. D. H. Cole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:650256269
Author : Alpesh Maisuria
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351976770
Emerging from a Marxist perspective, this book focuses on the importance of social class and the role of education broadly in relation to the possibility of revolutionary change in Sweden and beyond. Critically tracing the celebrated so-called ‘Swedish model’ from its inception to its current neoliberalisation, Maisuria explores the contours of class as part of social democratic history, culture and education, especially against the alternatives of communism and fascism. Presenting empirical research on class consciousness within a higher education context, Maisuria analyses student testimonies on their perceptions of social democracy and ‘Swedishness’ with ethno-racial dynamics, which is subjected to a Gramscian and Critical Realist derived explanatory critique for social transformation.
Author : Carmen Sirianni
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781789607277
Recent scholarship has rediscovered the genuinely mass character of the Bolshevik-led revolution that toppled Russian absolutism in 1917. In this major study, Carmen Sirianni undertakes a comprehensive study of the forms of popular power that emerged in the course of the struggle against Tsarist, and their destiny in the formative years of the new Soviet state. He successively discusses the factory committee movement, the attitudes of the trade unions and the left parties towards workers control, the unfolding of dual power, the tole of the peasantry, and the organization of labour and industry in the civil war. The developing theme of these chapters - the unsettled, often antagonistic relationship between working-class and peasant initiatives and demands and Bolshevik political and economic conceptions - is subjected to theoretical examination in the second part of the book. Here Sirianni analyses the particular constitution of Lenin's Marxism, and discerns in it a 'productivist evolutionism' which, he maintains, adversely affected the Bolsheviks' appreciation of working-class self-organization both in industry and in the exercise of political power, and vitiated their perception of the rural masses. Finally, Sirianni sets Russian policy and experience in its international context, considering the different, but also limited, views of Gramsci and Pannekoek, and the 'councilist' movements of Western Europe. He concludes with a reflection on the subsequent course of the revolutionary state and the options available to its leaders, as the defeat of the Left Opposition and then of Bukharin prepared the triumph of Stalinism. Workers Control and Socialist Democracy unites historical, political and theoretical judgement to make a fundamental contribution to our understanding, both of the Russian Revolution and of central unresolved issues of socialism in the twentieth century.
Author : Thomas Meyer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780745654614
The ascendancy of neo-liberalism in different parts of the world has put social democracy on the defensive. Its adherents lack a clear rationale for their policies. Yet a justification for social democracy is implicit in the United Nations Covenants on Human Rights, ratified by most of the worlds countries. The covenants commit all nations to guarantee that their citizens shall enjoy the traditional formal rights; but they likewise pledge governments to make those rights meaningful in the real world by providing social security and cultural recognition to every person. This new book provides a systematic defence of social democracy for our contemporary global age. The authors argue that the claims to legitimation implicit in democratic theory can be honored only by social democracy; libertarian democracies are defective in failing to protect their citizens adequately against social, economic, and environmental risks that only collective action can obviate. Ultimately, social democracy provides both a fairer and more stable social order. But can social democracy survive in a world characterized by pervasive processes of globalization? This book asserts that globalization need not undermine social democracy if it is harnessed by international associations and leavened by principles of cultural respect, toleration, and enlightenment. The structures of social democracy must, in short, be adapted to the exigencies of globalization, as has already occurred in countries with the most successful social-democratic practices.
Author : Leon Trotsky
Publisher : Litres
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785040482368
Author : Béla Kun
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Communism
ISBN : UOM:39015069764374
Author : John H. Kautsky
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001-12-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1412834309
Ever since the rise of mass labor movements in the late nineteenth century, socialism has been seen as an inevi- table and antagonistic response to capitalism and the spread of industrialization. Over the course of the twentieth century, however, socialism's failure to gain ground in the United States and most of the non-Western world exposed the limited, Eurocentric views of socialist theorists, and also the inadequacy of the theory as it applied to Europe as well. John Kautsky argues that a key factor in the development of social democratic labor movements was the persistence of powerful remnants of aristocratic institutions and ideologies whose survival into the industrial age preserved exclusionary hierarchies. These led, in turn, to radicalism and class consciousness among workers. Kautsky traces the evolution of socialist labor movements in Europe and Japan where aristocratic elements were still strong, detailing the survival of aristocratic privilege and the concomitants of worker class consciousness and demands for equality. He shows how social democratic reliance on free elections was primarily a weapon against the aristocracy rather than capitalism. Contradicting socialist theory, working-class growth came to an end, class lines became blurred, and a considerable degree of equality was achieved through the welfare state. Kautsky turns to those countries that were sufficiently industrialized to have large numbers of workers, but also had reasonably free elections, civil liberties, and less repression of trade unions. Though the United States, Canada, post-Soviet Russia, Mexico, and India have very different histories and societies, their workers have not confronted a powerful aristocracy. Great Britain, the first and for long the most advanced industrial country, was virtually the last to develop a socialist labor movement. In contrast, socialist movements in Canada and the United States, where egalitarian traditions were strong, found little support. Kautsky's concluding chapters treat the spread of corruption, the rise of new oligarchies in Russia, and the position of workers no longer honored and politically weak. In its innovative perspective on long-held theories and its currency for contemporary problems, Social Democracy and Aristocracy is an important contribution to political thought in the post-Marxist world. Its global approach makes it uniquely valuable for the comparative study of labor history and economic development.
Author : Maurice William
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015027993693
Deals largely with the influence of the author's The social interpretation of history, on the political and social philosophy of Sun Yat-Sen."The relationship between The social interpretation of history and San min chu i," signed: William J. Gies (p. 173-182).
