Left-of-centre democratic ideologies

First published in 1977.

First published in 1983, this important and stimulating book is a thoughtful contribution to the debate about the first steps that needed to be taken to build a socialist society in the 1980s.

This book explores the global impact of the Russian Revolution, arguably the most influential revolution of the modern age.

The French philosopher and economist Saint-Simon (1760-1825) propounded a new political, economic and social order in which the quest for economic efficiency and social justice led to putting the workers at the forefront.

2021 marks the 40th anniversary of the Limehouse Declaration and the launch of the Social Democratic Party in the UK, which was later to merge and form the Liberal Democrats.

The first comprehensive political history of the communist partyVanguard of the Revolution is a sweeping history of one of the most significant political institutions of the modern world.

Whilst the Chinese Communist Party is one of the most powerful political institutions in the world, it is also one of the least understood, due to the party's secrecy and tight control over the archives, the press and the Internet.

The study of Marxism in Britain throws light on what many historians have referred to as `the enemy within'.

Eurocommunism constitutes a "e;moment"e; of great transformation connecting the past and the present of the European Left, a political project by means of which left-wing politics in Europe effected a definitive transition to a thoroughly different paradigm.

This book presents a radical reinterpretation of the Socialist response to antisemitism in Imperial Germany.

The 2010s were a decade of foodbanks, riots, and the rebirth of political alternatives.

This book, first published in 1920, is an analysis of socialist trends and a synthesis of proletarian aims.

The Siege of Leningrad is the most powerful testimony to the immeasurable cruelty and horror of World War II.

From Revolutionaries to Citizens is the first comprehensive account of the most important antiwar campaign prior to World War I: the antimilitarism of the French Left.

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.

First published in 1977.

McManus presents a comprehensive guide to the liberal socialist tradition, stretching from Mary Wollstonecraft and Thomas Paine through John Stuart Mill to Irving Howe, John Rawls, and Charles Mills.

Is it possible to evolve a form of socialism which, while promoting industrial development, will be merciful to the ideals of democracy?

The German council movements arose through mass strikes and soldier mutinies towards the end of the First World War.

In this elegant and rigorously researched work, Kenneth McNaught details the life, work, and principles of J.

Has politics reached breaking point?

Over the past few years, something remarkable has occurred in Latin America.

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

First published in 1999, this volume was offered as a response to an increasingly hostile and alienating political world and speaks for the vision of libertarian socialism (anarchism).

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August Bebel (1840-1913) was one of the towering figures of late nineteenth century European socialism and the leading figure of the German labour movement from the 1860s until his death in 1913.

Influenced by Kojève's interpretation of Hegel as well as his direct political experience of the second world war, Maurice Merleau-Ponty abandoned the religious and philosophical position he had assumed in the 1930s and turned to Marxism.

Based on extended fieldwork conducted between 2007 and 2019, this book aims to answer a simple question: What is the meaning of home for people living in vernacular settlements in rural China?

Today, anti-humanism is a dominant, even definitive, feature of contemporary theory.

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

This book explores the emergence of Yugoslav globalism and how it was influenced by the early Cold War, the changes once Yugoslavia established itself as a nonaligned leader, and what the decline of Yugoslav globalism reveals about the waning Cold War and the history of internationalist diplomacy.

Why is the search for democratic renewal so elusive?

The writings of the Frankfurt school, in particular of Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, and Jurgen Habermas, caught the imagination of the radical movements of the 1960s and 1970s and became a key element in the Marxism of the New Left.

Garish churches, gabled panel blocks, neo-historical tenements-this book is about these and other architectural oddities that emerged in Poland between 1975 and 1989, a period characterised by the decline of the authoritarian socialist regime and waves of political protest.

This second volume considers various socialist impulses and developments after the collapse of the Owenite movement in Britain.

The crisis of the neoliberal order has resuscitated a political idea widely believed to be consigned to the dustbin of history.

The crisis of the neoliberal order has resuscitated a political idea widely believed to be consigned to the dustbin of history.

On the eve of the First World War, the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) was the largest and most powerful socialist party in the world.

Against the grain is the first general history of the British far left to be published in the twenty-first century.

This book re-examines aspects of historical socialism, and includes case studies of education within twenty-first century socialist and post-socialist contexts shaped by the trajectories of historical socialism.

This collection examines how the loss of state socialism as a world-making project and the subsequent failures of postsocialist "e;civil society building"e; have impacted new generations of progressive, antinationalist, anarchist, and social-justice oriented activists.

2020 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award WinnerThis book explores Britain's gradual disenchantment with both social democracy and the EEC/EU, culminating in the 2016 vote for Brexit.

In contrast to the Lost Generation of youth in the West, who were disoriented and disillusioned by the First World War and its aftermath, the Chinese youth born between 1895 and 1905 not only believed they had a duty to save their nation but pursued their goal through social and political experimentation.

The first detailed reconstruction of the late work of John Rawls, further developing his ideas of ''justice-as-fairness''.

It would be differcult to think of any political party whose internal problems have been so publicly scrutinised as have those of the Labour Party in recent years.

Building a New China in Cinema introduces English readers for the first time to one of the most exciting left-wing cinema traditions in the world.