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Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies

A History of the Labour Party from 1914 (Hardcover): G.D.H. Cole A History of the Labour Party from 1914 (Hardcover)
G.D.H. Cole
R4,973 Discovery Miles 49 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First published in 1948, this book gives a full account of the development of the British Labour Party from its emergence as a national influence in the first world war to its return to power with an effective majority after the second world war. The study includes an epilogue which surveys the achievements of the party in the years after the 1945 election. This title will be of interest to scholars and students of history and politics.

British Working Class Politics, 1832-1914 (Hardcover): G.D.H. Cole British Working Class Politics, 1832-1914 (Hardcover)
G.D.H. Cole
R4,044 Discovery Miles 40 440 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First published in 1941. This purpose of this history of the earlier phases of the political Labour movement was due to the author's belief that there was a need for a positive effort to re-create the legion of inspired and untiring propagandists for Socialism whose work made the Labour Party possible. This title will be of interest to scholars and students of history and politics.

Reshaping Labour - Organisation, Work and Politics (Hardcover): John Holford Reshaping Labour - Organisation, Work and Politics (Hardcover)
John Holford
R2,627 Discovery Miles 26 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First published in 1988. In a few short years during and just after the Great War, the Labour Party and the trade unions established themselves firmly at the centre of the British political and industrial scene. But at the same time, the politics and organisation of both Labour and unions were reshaped. This is a grass-roots study of a key period in the building of Labour's political and industrial base. It is a study of how unions and Labour were organised and motivated to seize their moments of destiny - and of how a new political industrial movement was limited by the common-sense of the age in which it was born. It is a study of shifting support for various Labour and Communist political and industrial strategies - of the pressures and struggles which reshaped the movement, stamping on it the character we know today. And it is a study of how labour - at work and in the community - responded to war, to prosperity, to depression.

An Infantile Disorder? - The Crisis and Decline of the New Left (Hardcover): Nigel Young An Infantile Disorder? - The Crisis and Decline of the New Left (Hardcover)
Nigel Young
R4,970 Discovery Miles 49 700 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First published in 1977. The New Left, as an organised political phenomenon, came - and went - largely in the 1960s. Was the Movement that went into precipitate decline after 1969 the same New Left that had developed a decade earlier? Nigel Young's thesis is that the core New Left, as it had evolved by the mid-1960s, had a unique identity that set it apart from other Old Left and Marxist groups. He believes that this was dissipated in the later developments of the black and student movements, and in the opposition to the Vietnam war. By 1968 - the watershed year - an acute 'identity-crisis' had set in within the Movement and became the major source of the New Left's disintegration. Nigel Young traces the Movement's growth and crisis mainly in Britain and America, where it reached its greater strength, but attention is also paid to parallel developments in similar movements elsewhere. He analyses the crisis in terms of the interrelationship between dilemmas of strategy and ideas, and the external events which tend to reinforce the tendencies toward elitism, intolerance and violence, and produce organisational breakdown.

The Life of Robert Owen (Hardcover): G.D.H. Cole The Life of Robert Owen (Hardcover)
G.D.H. Cole
R3,900 Discovery Miles 39 000 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First published in 1925. Robert Owen was, in the author's words, 'that rarest of phenomena, an utterly disinterested critic of a system by which he had himself risen to greatness', and in studying his life this work reveals with a remarkable clarity the first phases of the Industrial Revolution crowded as it was with events, changes, ideas, and characters. This title will be of great interest to scholars and students of labour history.

The Democratic Class Struggle (Hardcover): Walter Korpi The Democratic Class Struggle (Hardcover)
Walter Korpi
R3,737 Discovery Miles 37 370 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First published in 1983. This book combines a case study of class relations, politics and voting in Sweden with a comparative analysis of distributive conflicts and politics in eighteen OECD countries. Its underlying theoretical theme is the development of class relations in free-enterprise or capitalise democracies. This title will be of interest to students of history and politics.

Socialist Imaginations - Utopias, Myths, and the Masses (Hardcover): Stefan Arvidsson, Jakub Benes, Anja Kirsch Socialist Imaginations - Utopias, Myths, and the Masses (Hardcover)
Stefan Arvidsson, Jakub Benes, Anja Kirsch
R4,469 Discovery Miles 44 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume offers new perspectives on the appeal and profound cultural meaning of socialism over the past two centuries. It brings together scholarship from various disciplines addressing diverse national contexts, including Britain, China, France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, and the USA. Taken together, the contributions highlight the aesthetic, narrative, and religious dimensions of socialism as it has developed through three broad phases in the modern era: early nineteenth-century beginnings, mass-based political organizations, and the attainment of state power in the twentieth century and beyond. Socialism did not attract millions of people primarily because of logical argument and empirical evidence, important though those were. Rather, it told the most compelling story about the past, present, and future. Refocusing attention on socialism's imaginative dimensions, this volume aims to revive scholarly interest in one of the modern world(1)s most important political orientations.

Rosa Luxemburg and the Struggle for Democratic Renewal (Hardcover): Jon Nixon Rosa Luxemburg and the Struggle for Democratic Renewal (Hardcover)
Jon Nixon
R3,029 R2,118 Discovery Miles 21 180 Save R911 (30%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

What can contemporary activists and political theorists learn from the life and work of Rosa Luxemburg? Examining her contribution to radical democracy and revolutionary socialism, Jon Nixon shows why Red Rosa's legacy lives on. Luxemburg's political and intellectual formation was in itself a 'long revolution', conceived of over time and in response to world events; her groundbreaking ideas around internationalism and spontaneity were formulated in the context of revolution. Returning to her thinking on global capitalism, democratic renewal, state militarism, and the social question, Nixon draws out the enduring nature of her work, using her framework of ideas as a lens through which to view the contemporary debates. By establishing a rich and distinctive account of Luxemburg, Nixon makes the argument for why her struggle for democratic renewal is as relevant as ever.

Sara - My Whole Life Was a Struggle (Hardcover, 2 Ed): Sakine Cansiz Sara - My Whole Life Was a Struggle (Hardcover, 2 Ed)
Sakine Cansiz; Translated by Janet Biehl
R3,043 R2,132 Discovery Miles 21 320 Save R911 (30%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The bitter struggle of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, against the Turkish state has delivered inspirational but often tragic stories. This memoir by Kurdish revolutionary Sakine Cansiz is one of them. Sakine, whose code name was 'Sara', co-founded the PKK in 1974 and dedicated her life to its cause. On the 9 January 2013 she was assassinated in Paris in circumstances that remain officially unresolved. This is the first chapter of her iconic life, leading up to her arrest in 1979, penned as dramatic events unfolded against the backdrop of the Turkish revolutionary left. She writes about the excitement of entering the movement as a young woman, discovering she would have to challenge traditional gender roles as she rose amongst its ranks. She was one of the first to demand the recruitment and education of female revolutionaries, and demanded total gender equality within the PKK, which is now one of its central tenets. Today, 'Sara' is an inspiration to women fighting for liberation across the world. This is her story in her own words, and is in turns shocking, violent and path-breaking. Translated by Janet Biehl.

The Challenge of Globalization for Germany's Social Democracy - A Policy Agenda for the 21st Century (Hardcover): Dieter... The Challenge of Globalization for Germany's Social Democracy - A Policy Agenda for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
Dieter Dettke
R3,015 Discovery Miles 30 150 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"Modell Deutschland," once admired worldwide, has lost much of its shine, due to a number ofinternal and external factors. This important and timely volume deals with the economic andpolitical pressures and challenges of globalization and is particularly concerned with their effecton social policy, labor markets, environmental policies and technological change. Distinguishedacademic experts and leading politicians discuss these problems both from an internationalperspective and against the background of debates currently going on in Germany.

Contradictions of the Welfare State (Hardcover): Claus Offe Contradictions of the Welfare State (Hardcover)
Claus Offe; Edited by John Keane
R4,041 Discovery Miles 40 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Originally published in 1984, Contradictions of the Welfare State is the first collection of Claus Offe's essays to appear in a single volume in English. The political writings in this volume are primarily concerned with the origins of the present difficulties of welfare capitalist states, and he indicates why in the present period, these states are no longer capable of fully managing the socio-political problems and conflicts generated by late capitalist societies. Offe discusses the viability of New Right, corporatist and democratic socialist proposals for restructuring the welfare state. He also offers fresh and penetrating insights into a range of other subjects, including social movements, political parties, law, social policy, and labour markets.

John Spargo and American Socialism (Hardcover, 2006 ed.): M. Ruotsila John Spargo and American Socialism (Hardcover, 2006 ed.)
M. Ruotsila
R1,568 Discovery Miles 15 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is the first complete biography of John Spargo, a key popularizer of evolutionary socialism in the Socialist Party of America in the early twentieth century. One of the earliest forerunners of neoconservatism, he played a central role in constructing American anticommunism after 1917 and, as a Republican from the 1920s through the early 1960s, he developed imaginative new renditions of social democracy designed to make it relevant for American conditions and mindset.

Inclusionary Rhetoric/Exclusionary Practices - Left-wing Politics and Migrants in Italy (Hardcover, illustrated edition):... Inclusionary Rhetoric/Exclusionary Practices - Left-wing Politics and Migrants in Italy (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
Davide Pero
R3,010 Discovery Miles 30 100 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Migration and multiculturalism are hotly discussed in public debates across Europe. Whereas ethnographic research has begun to examine the Right in this context, the Left remains largely unexplored. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Bologna - the show-case city of the Italian Left - this book provides fresh perspectives on how the contemporary Left "frames" these issues in practice and how such framing has changed in recent decades. By focusing on the official rhetoric grassroots discourses, policy and civil societal practices of the Left as well as on the immigrants' own views, this book timely offers a comprehensive, vivid, and critical account of changing ideas about ethnicity, class, identity and difference in "progressive" politics and of the implications that such ideas have for the incorporation of migrants in Europe.

The Social Analysis of Class Structure (Hardcover): Frank Parkin The Social Analysis of Class Structure (Hardcover)
Frank Parkin
R4,044 Discovery Miles 40 440 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Originally published in 1974, The Social Analysis of Class Structure is an edited collection addressing class formation and class relations in industrial society. The range and variety of the contributions provide a useful guide to the central concerns of British sociology in the 1970s. Encompassing general theorizing and empirical investigation, the book examines the treatment of crucial issues of the day, such as the relationships between race and class formation, and sexual subordination, as well addressing historical questions such as the Victorian labour aristocracy and the incorporation of the working class.

Economic Restructuring and Social Exclusion (Hardcover): Phillip Brown, Rosemary Crompton Economic Restructuring and Social Exclusion (Hardcover)
Phillip Brown, Rosemary Crompton
R3,583 Discovery Miles 35 830 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Economic Restructuring and Social Exclusion provides a timely reminder of persisting inequalities of class, race and gender as a consequence of the changes which have engulfed Europe in less than a decade. The contributors consider key debates including democracy, social justice and citizenship. The book also examines evidence that social and economic polarization is increasing, and the prospect of a conspicuous and growing "underclass" in Europe's urban centres is fast becoming a reality. This volume will be particularly valuable for undergraduate and postgraduate students in sociology.

Out of the Darkness - Greenham Voices 1981-2000 (Hardcover): Kate Kerrow, Rebecca Mordan Out of the Darkness - Greenham Voices 1981-2000 (Hardcover)
Kate Kerrow, Rebecca Mordan; Foreword by Frankie Armstrong
R623 R554 Discovery Miles 5 540 Save R69 (11%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

In 1981, a group of women marched from Cardiff to the Greenham Common RAF base in Newbury to protest the siting of US nuclear missiles on British soil. They formed what became the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp and stayed there for almost twenty years, in what would become the largest, most effective woman-led protest since the Suffrage campaign. Out of the Darkness reunites the women of Greenham to share their recollections of the highs and lows of camp life, explore how they organised, and uncover the non-violent ways they challenged military, police and cultural forces, all in the name of peace. Whether freeing MoD geese or dancing on silos, whether composing songs to put their cases across in court or kissing in the face of advancing police, this is the story of the power of creativity, wit and courage, and the sisterhood the Greenham women created. This book celebrates the Greenham pioneers of peaceful protest and hopes to inspire a new generation of activists.

The Crisis of the German Left - The PDS, Stalinism and the Global Economy (Paperback, New edition): Peter Thompson The Crisis of the German Left - The PDS, Stalinism and the Global Economy (Paperback, New edition)
Peter Thompson
R764 Discovery Miles 7 640 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Using Nietzsche's categories of monumentalist, antiquarian and critical history, the author examines the historical and theoretical contexts of the collapse of the GDR in 1989 and looks at the positive and negative legacies of the GDR for the PDS (the successor party to the East German Communists). He contends that the Stalinization of the GDR itself was the product not just of the Cold War but of a longer inter-systemic struggle between the competing primacies of politics and economics and that the end of the GDR has to be seen as a consequence of the global collapse of the social imperative under the pressure of the re-emergence of the market-state since the mid-1970s. The PDS is therefore stuck in dilemma in which any attempt to "arrive in the Federal Republic" (Brie) is criticized as a readiness to accept the dominance of the market over society whereas any attempt to prioritize social imperatives over the market is attacked as a form of unreconstructed Stalinism. The book offers some suggestions as to how to escape from this dilemma by returning to the critical rather than monumentalist and antiquarian traditions of the workers' movement.

Chartist Fiction - Volume One (Paperback): Ian Haywood Chartist Fiction - Volume One (Paperback)
Ian Haywood
R1,252 Discovery Miles 12 520 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First published in 1999. For the first time since their appearance in Chartist newspapers these two major radical narratives are reprinted in a single volume. The Political Pilgrim's Progress combines Utopian politics with Bunyanesque satire to tell the story of the journey of Radical and his family from the City of Plunder to the City of Reform. Sunshine and Shadow is the only serialized novel to have been published in the Northern Star. It brings together fictional biography and historical chronicle to form the first truly working-class novel. Both texts offer a unique insight into the literary achievements of the Chartist movement, and will be a valuable and entertaining source for scholars of radical politics. The texts are fully annotated, and the editor also provides an introduction to each story and a bibliography of recent scholarship.

Robert Owen's  Experiment at New Lanark - From Paternalism to Socialism (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Ophelie Simeon Robert Owen's Experiment at New Lanark - From Paternalism to Socialism (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Ophelie Simeon
R3,092 Discovery Miles 30 920 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book provides an account of how, in the years 1800-1825, enlightened entrepreneur and budding reformer Robert Owen used his cotton mill village of New Lanark, Scotland, as a test-bed for a set of political intuitions which would later form the bedrock of early socialism in Britain. Drawing from previously unpublished archival sources, this study shows that New Lanark was not merely on the receiving end of Owen's innovative brand of industrial paternalism, but also acted as a major source of inspiration for many aspects of his social system, including his desire to remodel society along communitarian lines. This book therefore reaffirms the centrality of New Lanark as the cradle of socialism in Britain, and provides a contextualised, social history of Owen's ideas, tracing direct continuities between his early years as a paternalistic businessman, and his later career as a radical political leader. In doing so, it eschews the myth of New Lanark as a unidimensional 'model' village and addresses the ambiguities of Owen's journey from paternalism to socialism.

Against Capitalism - The European Left on the March (Hardcover): William A. Pelz Against Capitalism - The European Left on the March (Hardcover)
William A. Pelz
R1,465 Discovery Miles 14 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Typically the gains in living standards and political rights of Europeans are presented as flowing from the good graces of industrial capitalism. In reality, as this book proves, it was the massive, militant struggle of millions of average persons who forced concessions such as the welfare state and free elections to Parliament. Without understanding the revolutionary vision and the pressure it placed on European rulers, it is difficult to understand contemporary society.

African Socialism in Postcolonial Tanzania - Between the Village and the World (Hardcover): Priya Lal African Socialism in Postcolonial Tanzania - Between the Village and the World (Hardcover)
Priya Lal
R2,822 Discovery Miles 28 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Drawing on a wide range of oral and written sources, this book tells the story of Tanzania's socialist experiment: the ujamaa villagization initiative of 1967-75. Inaugurated shortly after independence, ujamaa ('familyhood' in Swahili) both invoked established socialist themes and departed from the existing global repertoire of development policy, seeking to reorganize the Tanzanian countryside into communal villages to achieve national development. Priya Lal investigates how Tanzanian leaders and rural people creatively envisioned ujamaa and documents how villagization unfolded on the ground, without affixing the project to a trajectory of inevitable failure. By forging an empirically rich and conceptually nuanced account of ujamaa, African Socialism in Postcolonial Tanzania restores a sense of possibility and process to the early years of African independence, refines prevailing theories of nation building and development, and expands our understanding of the 1960s and 70s world.

Collected Works, v. 34 - 1863-64 (Hardcover): Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels Collected Works, v. 34 - 1863-64 (Hardcover)
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
R1,529 Discovery Miles 15 290 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume contains the end of Marx's economic manuscripts of 1861-63 which concludes his analysis of the production process of capital, concentrating on problems of the reproduction and circulation of the aggregate social capital. The book is part of a definitive English-language edition, prepared in collabo ration with the Institute of Marxism-Leninism in Moscow, which contains all the works of Marx and Engels, whether published in their lifetimes or since. The series includes their complete correspondence and newly discovered works.

The Failure of Socialism in South Korea - 1945-2007 (Paperback): Yunjong Kim The Failure of Socialism in South Korea - 1945-2007 (Paperback)
Yunjong Kim
R1,551 Discovery Miles 15 510 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Despite the fact that socialist parties have proved to be a major political force across the world, this has not been the case in Asian countries. Socialism in South Korea is a quintessential example of this failure. Despite the existence of a socialist party and what would seem to be the right conditions for development, the Korean socialist tendency has failed to become a meaningful force in politics. This book explores why and under what conditions Korean socialism has failed to develop into a social democrat movement in the post-war period. Within the context of the integration of structural and agency factors, it goes beyond the generally accepted view that the left failed because of suppression by the state and proffers that the real reason why socialism failed lay with its inability to develop beyond revolutionary socialism and build a more pragmatic social democracy that could develop a broad alliance within Korean society. Also drawing on examples from Western Europe and Latin America, where left-wing forces have achieved power, this book will be of huge interest not only to students and scholars of Asian and Korean politics, but also socialism, comparative and international politics alike.

Stalinism - Essays in Historical Interpretation (Paperback, New edition): Robert C. Tucker Stalinism - Essays in Historical Interpretation (Paperback, New edition)
Robert C. Tucker
R1,582 Discovery Miles 15 820 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

In the years since Stalin's death, his profound influence upon the historical development of Communism has remained elusive and in need of interpretation. Stalinism, as his system has become known, is a phenomenon which embraced all facets of political and social life. While its effect upon the Soviet Union and other nations today is far less than it was while Stalin lived, it is by no means dead. In this landmark volume some of the world's foremost scholars of the subject, in a concerted group inquiry, present their interpretations of Stalinism and its influence on all areas of comparative Communist studies from history and politics to economics, sociology, and literary scholarship. The studies contained in this volume are an outgrowth of a conference on Stalinism held in Bellagio, Italy, sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies. In his major contribution to this book, Leszek Kolakowski calls Stalinism "a unified state organism facing atom-like individuals." This extraordinary volume, augmented by a revealing new introduction by the editor, Robert C. Tucker, can be seen as amplifying that remark nearly a half century after the death of Joseph Stalin himself. Contributors to this work are: Wlodzimierz Brus, Katerina Clark, Stephen F. Cohen, Alexander Erlich, Leszek Kolakowski, Moshe Lewin, Robert H. McNeal, Mihailo Markovic, Roy A. Medvedev, T. H. Rigby, Robert Sharlet, and H. Gordon Skilling. Robert C. Tucker's principle work on Stalin has been described by George F. Kennan as "the most significant single contribution made to date, anywhere, to the history of Soviet power."

Urban America Examined - A Bibliography (Hardcover): Dale Casper Urban America Examined - A Bibliography (Hardcover)
Dale Casper
R3,212 R2,526 Discovery Miles 25 260 Save R686 (21%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Originally published in 1985 Urban America Examined, is a comprehensive bibliography examining the urban environment of the United States. The book is split into sections corresponding to the four main geographic regions of the country, looking respectively at research conducted in the East, South, Midwest and West. The book provides a broad cross section of sources, from books to periodicals and covers a range of interdisciplinary issues such as social theory, urbanization, the growth of the city, ethnicity, socialism and US politics.

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