Left-of-centre democratic ideologies

China is currently encountering increasing social problems, together with the rise of mass discontent and public protest, despite having achieved enormous economic growth after nearly thirty years of market socialism and embracing globalization.

Edited by Samuel H.

Arguing that the hegemony of the neoliberal/capitalist nexus must be challenged if we are to address the proliferating challenges facing our world, this inspiring book explains how democracy can revive the political fortunes of the left.

Arguing that the hegemony of the neoliberal/capitalist nexus must be challenged if we are to address the proliferating challenges facing our world, this inspiring book explains how democracy can revive the political fortunes of the left.

Decolonial Politics in European Peripheries: Redefining Progressiveness, Coloniality and Transition Efforts is a timely contribution to the project of theorizing "e;Europe"e; through decolonial perspectives on the Left, as the European and global crisis has prompted new reflections on what it means to sit still at the European "e;peripheries"e;.

Provides a new way of thinking about parties formed by social movements, and their evolution over time.

Explains how bold efforts at profound progressive change provoked a powerful reactionary backlash that led to the imposition of brutal, regressive dictatorships.

Explores the value of an organization-centered approach to understanding parties and their role in democratic representation.

Explains how bold efforts at profound progressive change provoked a powerful reactionary backlash that led to the imposition of brutal, regressive dictatorships.

Explores the value of an organization-centered approach to understanding parties and their role in democratic representation.

Volume I offers a world-encompassing overview of state negating (utopian, early socialist, anarchist, syndicalist) movements and thinkers.

Volume II offers a world-encompassing overview of movements and parties that wanted to promote social justice by social reform – the conquering and transforming of state power.

Volume I offers a world-encompassing overview of state negating (utopian, early socialist, anarchist, syndicalist) movements and thinkers.

Machiavelli believes republicans must be prepared to defend strict limits on elite power even when elites are ''good''.

This is a novel, transnational exploration of the major Chinese intellectual debates on radicalism in history, culture, and politics after 1989.

Offers new insights into both the successes and the limitations of Latin America''s left in the twentieth century.

Offers new insights into both the successes and the limitations of Latin America''s left in the twentieth century.

A social and political history of Mexico''s first political system after the Revolution that demonstrates the critical influence of regional socialist parties.

A major new contribution to understanding the transition of Soviet society from Stalinism to a more humane model of socialism.

A major new contribution to understanding the transition of Soviet society from Stalinism to a more humane model of socialism.

Who Judges?

This volume considers the political implications of Judaism, the relationships of leftists and Jews, contemporary anti-Zionism, and the importance of gender.

This volume considers the political implications of Judaism, the relationships of leftists and Jews, contemporary anti-Zionism, and the importance of gender.

Stephen H.

Stephen H.

This book explores two themes in connection with contemporary capitalism: infrastructural capitalism as the most advanced phase of a modernity, of which the "e;workman"e; or homo faber is the embodiment, who exists within an infrastructure whose logic of connectivity is aimed at value extraction; and a landscape of ruins - in the form of symbolic misery, the Anthropocene and a process of refeudalisation - that the homo faber has been piling up around himself as a result.

The Twilight of World Trotskyism analyzes the reasons behind the historic failure of the Trotskyist movement around the world.

The Twilight of World Trotskyism analyzes the reasons behind the historic failure of the Trotskyist movement around the world.

This book provides the definitive account of the making of the 1942 Beveridge Report and its influence on wartime and post-war social policy.

This book provides the definitive account of the making of the 1942 Beveridge Report and its influence on wartime and post-war social policy.

Moving past the conflation of state socialism with all socialist projects, this book opens up avenues for addressing socialist projects rooted in decolonial and antiracist politics.

Moving past the conflation of state socialism with all socialist projects, this book opens up avenues for addressing socialist projects rooted in decolonial and antiracist politics.

This book, originally published in 1923, embodies two related and yet distinct types of sociological endeavour.

This book, originally published in 1923, embodies two related and yet distinct types of sociological endeavour.

Radical Left Voters in Western Europe explores who votes for Radical Left Parties in contemporary Western Europe, and why.

Radical Left Voters in Western Europe explores who votes for Radical Left Parties in contemporary Western Europe, and why.

This book argues that capitalism cannot be said to be truly democratic and that a system of producer cooperatives, or democratically managed enterprises, is needed to give rise to a new mode of production which is genuinely socialist and fully consistent with the ultimate rationale underlying Marx's theoretical approach.

This book argues that capitalism cannot be said to be truly democratic and that a system of producer cooperatives, or democratically managed enterprises, is needed to give rise to a new mode of production which is genuinely socialist and fully consistent with the ultimate rationale underlying Marx's theoretical approach.

Challenging persistent geopolitical asymmetries in feminist knowledge production, this collection depicts collisions between concepts and lived experiences, between academic feminism and political activism, between the West as generalizable and the East as the concrete Other.

Challenging persistent geopolitical asymmetries in feminist knowledge production, this collection depicts collisions between concepts and lived experiences, between academic feminism and political activism, between the West as generalizable and the East as the concrete Other.

Why does 1968 matter today?

Why does 1968 matter today?

First published in 1977.

First published in 1977.

Xiang explains the nature and depth of the legitimacy crisis facing the government of China, and why it is so frequently misunderstood in the West.

Xiang explains the nature and depth of the legitimacy crisis facing the government of China, and why it is so frequently misunderstood in the West.

Originally published in 1989 Social Philosophy and Ecological Scarcity presents a systematic study of the implications of ecological scarcity for social philosophy.

Originally published in 1989 Social Philosophy and Ecological Scarcity presents a systematic study of the implications of ecological scarcity for social philosophy.

George Orwell has had a profound influence on modern politics and culture.

George Orwell has had a profound influence on modern politics and culture.