| The End of Parliamentary Socialism: From New Left to New Labour Contributor(s): Leys, Colin (Author), Panitch, Leo (Author), Coates, David (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 1859843387 ISBN-13: 9781859843383 Publisher: Verso OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2001 Annotation: This trenchant account of the last twenty-five years of the British Labour Party argues that Tony Blair's modernising tendency was profoundly mistaken in asserting that the only alternative to traditional social democracy and narrow parliamentarianism was an acceptance of neo-liberalism. In blaming the Labour left, rather than the social-democratic right for the party's years in the electoral wilderness, the modernisers rejected the creativity and energy which the party's New Left had mobilised, and without which their own professed aim of democratic renewal was unlikely to be realised. In this new edition, the authors, in collaboration with David Coates, review the debate in light of the Blair government's first three years in office. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | History & Theory - General - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism - Political Science | Political Process - Political Parties |
| Dewey: 324.241 |
| Physical Information: 1.12" H x 6.16" W x 9.16" (1.31 lbs) 380 pages |
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| Publisher Description: This trenchant account of the last twenty-five years of the British Labour Party argues that Tony Blair's modernizing tendency was profoundly mistaken in asserting that the only alternative to traditional social democracy and narrow parliamentarianism was an acceptance of neo-liberalism. In blaming the Labour left, rather than the social-democratic right for the party's years in the electoral wilderness, the modernizers rejected the creativity and energy which the party's New Left had mobilized, and without which their own professed aim of democratic renewal was unlikely to be realized. In this new edition, the authors, in collaboration with David Coates, review the debate in light of the Blair government's first three years in office. |