Parliamentary Socialism

Parliamentary Socialism

Ralph Miliband

27,04 €
IVA incluido
Disponible
Editorial:
The Merlin Press
Año de edición:
2009
ISBN:
9780850361353
27,04 €
IVA incluido
Disponible

Selecciona una librería:

  • Librería Samer Atenea
  • Librería Aciertas (Toledo)
  • Kálamo Books
  • Librería Perelló (Valencia)
  • Librería Elías (Asturias)
  • Donde los libros
  • Librería Kolima (Madrid)
  • Librería Proteo (Málaga)

One of the seminal texts of the British New LeftLeo PanitchParliamentary Socialism presents a detailed and scholarly record of the Labour Party’s thinking and of its role in British politics from 1900 until the 1960s. A postscript reflects on the period of Harold Wilson’s Labour government from 1964 to 1970.Reviewing the book on first publication in 1961, Michael Foot described it as ’the most important contribution made for many years to the study of the way the Labour Party works’.Contents includes:Labour in Parliament; Labour in the First World War; Parliamentarism versus Direct Action; From Opposition to Office; The General Strike; The Challenge of Appeasement; The Climax of Labourism; The Sickness of LabourismRalph Miliband (1924-1994) was one of the key intellectual figures of the British New Left. He was the founder of the Socialist Register and author of Marxism and Politics, The State in Capitalism Society (new edition published 2009) and Socialism for a Sceptical Age.He taught for many years at the London School of Economics before taking up the Chair of Politics at the University of Leeds. He subsequently taught at Brandeis in Boston, York University in Toronto and the Graduate Centre of the City University of New York.

Artículos relacionados

  • Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
    Karl Marx
    In the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 Marx explains how, under capitalism, people rely on labor to live. In the past people could rely on Nature itself for their natural needs; in modern society, if one wants to eat, one must work: it is only through money that one may survive. Thus, man becomes a slave to his wages. It is only through his work that he can find en...
  • The Communist Manifesto
    Friedrich Engels / Karl Marx / Samuel Moore
    First published in 1848, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’ revolutionary manifesto quickly became one of the most influential political and economictexts in history. A landmark in political philosophy, it advocates for the overthrow of capitalist systems and the establishment of a classless,communist society. ...
    Disponible

    13,12 €

  • Cruel September
    Daniel D. Victor
    Romance blooms at Phillips Junior High when teacher Art Malamud, the school’s union rep, meets Mandy Sayer, the newest member of the faculty. As the school year progresses, Art leads his colleagues in the historic Los Angeles teachers’ strike of 1970 and stokes the ire of the principal, Vivian Laws. Though Art has tenure and relative immunity from Laws’s personal attacks, Mandy...
  • Agents of Reform
    Elisabeth Anderson
    A groundbreaking account of how the welfare state began with early nineteenth-century child labor laws, and how middle-class and elite reformers made it happenThe beginnings of the modern welfare state are often traced to the late nineteenth-century labor movement and to policymakers’ efforts to appeal to working-class voters. But in Agents of Reform, Elisabeth Anderson shows t...
    Disponible

    42,75 €

  • Fish and Chips, and the British Working Class, 1870-1940
    John K. Walton
    Unlike other institutions of central importance to working-class life, the fish-and-chip trade has not yet been rescued from what the author of this book regards as the massive condescension of posterity. In attempting to begin this process, he traces the origins of what was by 1914 an important national industry, setting the economic, social and political context of the trade,...
    Disponible

    142,78 €

  • Subterranean Matters
    Andrea Marston
    In Subterranean Matters, Andrea Marston examines the ongoing history of Bolivian mining cooperatives, an economic formation that has been central to Bolivian politics and to the country’s economy. Marston outlines how mining cooperatives occupy a contradictory place in Bolivian politics. They were major backers of left-wing president Evo Morales in 2006 and participated signifi...
    Disponible

    36,40 €

Otros libros del autor

  • Marxism and Politics (2004)
    Ralph Miliband
    This readable survey of Marxist political theory and key texts by seminal thinkers including Marx, Engels, and Lenin highlights formative concepts and debates within Marxist thought. The argument is presented that a democratic socialism can defend and extend freedoms and thereby remove class distinctions. This introduction considers the nature of class conflict, the proposed de...
    Disponible

    20,84 €