Socialism Unbound

Author : Stephen Bronner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000311990

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Socialism Unbound first appeared in 1990. The Berlin Wall had just fallen and the Soviet Union was in a crisis that soon would turn into its death throes. Mikhail Gorbachev was still in power and, incredibly, it seemed as if his sclerotic communist state might yet make way for a new form of socialism with democratic political foundations. Movements committed to liberal constitutionalism, whose dynamics still remain theoretically undeveloped, were taking to the streets almost everywhere in Eastern Europe. Hopes on the left were high. In the popular imagination, however, the final collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 seemed to vindicate the policies of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. Laissez-faire became the rallyingcry for most former dissidents and the new party professionals in Eastern Europe. Meanwhile, in the West, attempts to temper market excesses were condemned as anachronistic. Left politics suddenly stood discredited. Indeed, soon enough, the attack on "socialism" would turn into an attack on welfare liberalism and the values associated with the 1960s.

Author : Stephen Eric Bronner
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231527354

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Published more than twenty years ago, Stephen Eric Bronner's bold defense of socialism remains a seminal text for our time. Treating socialism as an ethic, reinterpreting its core categories, and critically confronting its early foundations, Bronner's work offers a reinvigorated "class ideal" and a new perspective for progressive politics in the twentieth century. Socialism Unbound is an extraordinary work of political history that revisits the pivotal figures of the labor movement: Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Karl Kautsky, Vladimir Lenin, and Rosa Luxemburg. Examining their contributions as well as their flaws, Bronner shows how critical innovation gave way to dogma. New practical problems have arisen, and this volume engages with the relationship between class and social movements, institutional accountability and democratic participation, economic justice and market imperatives, and internationalism and identity. With a foreword by Dick Howard and a new introduction by the author, Bronner's classic study remains indispensable for scholars and activists alike.

Author : Stephen Eric Bronner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0415901014

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Socialism Unbound by Stephen Eric Bronner Pdf

Presenting a re-examination of socialist thought from Marx to the American New Left, this book is organized around major thinkers and turning points in the history of socialism. The author defines the basis for a new approach to socialism which speaks to the needs of the modern era.

Author : Stephen Bronner,Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367303205

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Socialism Unbound by Stephen Bronner,Taylor & Francis Group Pdf

This book seeks to expose the diverse dynamics and self-critical possibilities of socialist thought. It focuses on the importance of political action inside and outside the electoral arena.

Author : Stephen Eric Bronner
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231153829

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Originally published: Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, c2001.

Author : Andrew Bernstein
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780761849698

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Capitalism Unbound by Andrew Bernstein Pdf

This book is a concise explanation of capitalism's moral and economic superiority to socialism, including America's current mixed-economy welfare state. This volume offers a focused, essentialized, and condensed argument ideal for the layman who admires capitalism but lacking a succinct, accessible explanation of its moral and economic virtues.

Author : Carl Boggs
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0415906709

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The Socialist Tradition by Carl Boggs Pdf

The Socialist Tradition explores the theoretical origins and historical development of the socialist tradition from the 19th century to the present, focusing on the long-term decline of socialism in the post-World War II period. Carl Boggs examines the constituent elements of democratic socialism, the forms and strategies it has embodied and the material, ideological and historical obstacles it has confronted. He explains the conditions associated with its growth and the shifting of these conditions over the years. He also assesses the prospects today for the reappearance of a strong socialist tradition in the context of global crisis and the collapse of Communism.

Author : Hans A. Baer
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785336966

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Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Real Utopia by Hans A. Baer Pdf

As global economic and population growth continues to skyrocket, increasingly strained resources have made one thing clear: the desperate need for an alternative to capitalism. In Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Real Utopia, Hans Baer outlines the urgent need to reevaluate historical definitions of socialism, commit to social equality and justice, and prioritize environmental sustainability. Democatic eco-socialism, as he terms it, is a system capable of mobilizing people around the world, albeit in different ways, to prevent on-going human socio-economic and environmental degradation, and anthropogenic climate change.

Author : Paul Cockshott,Allin Cottrell,Heinz Dieterich
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781445715070

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Transition to 21st Century Socialism in the European Union by Paul Cockshott,Allin Cottrell,Heinz Dieterich Pdf

A socialist programme presented in Berlin in 2010 giving a strategy for the European Left.

Author : Pascal Bridel
Publisher : Librairie Droz
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2600042490

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The Socialist Calculation Debate After the Upheavals in Eastern Europe by Pascal Bridel Pdf

Author : Eric v.d. Luft
Publisher : Gegensatz Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781621307501

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The Socialist Reader by Eric v.d. Luft Pdf

Key texts in the history of socialist theory and practice, selections from Victor Berger, Elizabeth Blackwell, Eugene Victor Debs, Ron Dellums, Havelock Ellis, the Fabian Society, William Godwin, Moses Hess, Mother Jones, Dennis Kucinich, Meyer London, Ramsay MacDonald, Cynthia McKinney, Robert Owen, Emmeline Pankhurst, Progressive Democrats of America (PDA), Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Arnold Ruge, Henri de Saint-Simon, Bernie Sanders, George Bernard Shaw, Upton Sinclair, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Elizabeth Warren, Julius Augustus Wayland, Beatrice Webb, and Sidney Webb.

Author : Neal Riemer,Douglas Simon,Douglas W. Simon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0939693410

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The New World of Politics by Neal Riemer,Douglas Simon,Douglas W. Simon Pdf

In this fourth edition Neal Riemer and Douglas W. Simon again seek to introduce students to the challenging discipline of political science by highliting six cardinal features. The editors strongly believe that their unique and comprehensive approach, employing those six features, can best equip students of political science to stay abreast of the ever-changing, and ever-challenging, world of politics. First and most important Riemer and Simon affirm the importance of addressing the three main concerns of political science: political and philosophy and ethics, empirical/behavioral political science, and public policy. Second, the authors reaffirm their normative preference for politics as a civilizing enterprise, one that enables people in the political community live better, to grow robustly in mind and spirit, and to find creative fulfillment. The fourth cardinal feature requires to recognize realistically the ever-chaning nature of politics and the tasks of assessing and responding to changing values. The sixth cardinal feature of The New World of Politics is understanding the importance of keeping the future in mind--not only the immediate future, but the long-range future. This book seeks to introduce students to political science as a discipline intimately involved with ethics, emprical social scientific inquiry, and public policy. Neal Riemer and Douglas W. Simon are endeavoring to help students respond to those future problems with understanding and wisdom. A Collegiate Press book

Author : Anne E. Gorsuch,Diane P. Koenker
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253009494

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The Socialist Sixties by Anne E. Gorsuch,Diane P. Koenker Pdf

“A very engaging collection of essays that adds much to an evolving literature on the social history of the Soviet Union and broader socialist societies.” —Choice The 1960s have reemerged in scholarly and popular culture as a protean moment of cultural revolution and social transformation. In this volume socialist societies in the Second World (the Soviet Union, East European countries, and Cuba) are the springboard for exploring global interconnections and cultural cross-pollination between communist and capitalist countries and within the communist world. Themes explored include flows of people and media; the emergence of a flourishing youth culture; sharing of songs, films, and personal experiences through tourism and international festivals; and the rise of a socialist consumer culture and an esthetics of modernity. Challenging traditional categories of analysis and periodization, this book brings the sixties problematic to Soviet studies while introducing the socialist experience into scholarly conversations traditionally dominated by First World perspectives.

Author : Sirvan Karimi
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781487510961

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Beyond the Welfare State by Sirvan Karimi Pdf

Neoliberal calls for welfare state reforms, especially cuts to public pensions, are a contentious issue for employees, employers, and national governments across the western world. But what are the underlying factors that have shaped the response to these pressures in Canada and Australia? In Beyond the Welfare State, Sirvan Karimi utilizes a synthesis of Marxian class analysis and the power resources model to provide an analytical foundation for the divergent pattern of public pension systems in Canada and Australia. Karimi reveals that the postwar social contract in Australia was market-based and more conducive to the privatization of retirement income. In Canada, the social contract emphasized income redistribution that resulted in strengthening the link between the state and the citizen. By shedding light on the impact of national settings on public pension systems, Beyond the Welfare State introduces new conceptual tools to aid our understanding of the welfare state at a time when it is increasingly under threat.

Author : Geoffrey Kurtz
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271065847

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Jean Jaurès by Geoffrey Kurtz Pdf

Jean Jaurès was a towering intellectual and political leader of the democratic Left at the turn of the twentieth century, but he is little remembered today outside of France, and his contributions to political thought are little studied anywhere. In Jean Jaurès: The Inner Life of Social Democracy, Geoffrey Kurtz introduces Jaurès to an American audience. The parliamentary and philosophical leader of French socialism from the 1890s until his assassination in 1914, Jaurès was the only major socialist leader of his generation who was educated as a political philosopher. As he championed the reformist method that would come to be called social democracy, he sought to understand the inner life of a political tradition that accepts its own imperfection. Jaurès's call to sustain the tension between the ideal and the real resonates today. In addition to recovering the questions asked by the first generation of social democrats, Kurtz’s aim in this book is to reconstruct Jaurès’s political thought in light of current theoretical and political debates. To achieve this, he gives readings of several of Jaurès’s major writings and speeches, spanning work from his early adulthood to the final years of his life, paying attention to not just what Jaurès is saying, but how he says it.