Published more than twenty years ago, Stephen Eric Bronner's
bold defense of socialism remains one of the best texts to reframe
the movement for modern audiences. Treating socialism as an ethic
and reclaiming its early intellectual foundations, while
acknowledging and correcting its inherent flaws, Bronner advances a
more robust theory of working-class politics for the twenty-first
century.
Unfolding chronologically, Bronner's study revisits the labor
movement's pivotal figures--Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Karl
Kautsky, Eduard Bernstein, Vladimir Lenin, and Rosa Luxemburg--and
the major themes governing their work. He identifies the
contributions of these individuals but also their missteps,
particularly the moments in which critical innovation gave way to
dogma, muddying the meaning of core principles and practices.
Bronner confronts a host of controversial issues, including the
relationship between class and social movements, institutional
accountability and participation, and economic justice and market
imperatives; the problematic processes of revolution and reform;
and the tensions between internationalism and identity. Adding a
new introduction examining the revival of socialist theory and the
evolution of labor politics over the past three decades, Bronner's
classic treatise furthers the intellectual development of a
genuinely progressive politics.
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