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Social Opulence and Private Restraint - The Consumer in British Socialist Thought Since 1800 (Hardcover)
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Social Opulence and Private Restraint - The Consumer in British Socialist Thought Since 1800 (Hardcover)
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Social Opulence and Private Restraint is a study of the place of
the consumer and consumption in the political economy of British
socialism, from its early-nineteenth-century origins, through 'New
Times' Marxism, to the consumer-focused New Labourism and political
economies critical of consumerism that can be found in the
late-twentieth and early-twenty-first-century Left. Noel Thompson
identifies and explicates recurrent themes which cross the
boundaries of the conventional periodisation of the history of
British socialist thought; themes which illustrate the sustained
nature of the multifaceted ideological challenge presented by the
accommodation of the consumer within socialist political economy.
This challenge necessitates an engagement with the character and
priorities of a future socialist society. As such it touches on
some of the key issues which socialists have confronted in pursuit
of their vision of a good society: issues with a strong
contemporary relevance such as the desirability of private as
against social opulence; the relationship between consumption and
happiness; the need to educate and/or to liberate desire; and, in
particular, the environmental and social consequences of rising
levels of consumer expectation and consumption. The study also
throws light on how the disparate ways in which these issues were
addressed reflected and shaped the socialist political economies
that emerged in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, while also
engendering tensions between them.
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