
A History of Socialist Thought
From the Precursors to the Present
SAGE Publications Inc (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 5. September 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
468 pages
978-0-7619-9465-7 (ISBN)
Description
This book provides a detailed and critical account of the dominant schools and theorists of socialism. The major schools of socialism like Marxism, Anarchism, Guild Socialism, Syndicalism, Fabianism, and Social Democracy are discussed with special emphasis on the important theoreticians like Thomas More, Karl Marx, Ferdinand Lassalle, William Morris, and Antonio Gramsci. The authors analyze the varied controversies within socialism; the role of the market and the importance of planning; and reform vs. revolution.Most importantly, the authors explain the recent collapse of communism and the disarray in which democratic socialism finds itself, and provide answers to the future of socialism.
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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Thousand Oaks
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Weight
522 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7619-9465-7 (9780761994657)
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Content
Introduction
PART ONE: THE PRECURSORS
Thomas More
James Harrington
PART TWO: EARLY SOCIALISTS
Saint Simon
Robert Owen
Charles Fourier
PART THREE: NINETEENTH CENTURY MARXISTS
Karl Heinrich Marx
Friedrich Engels
August Bebel
PART FOUR: SOCIAL DEMOCRATS
Ferdinand Lassalle
Eduard Bernstein
George Douglas Howard Cole
PART FIVE: TWENTIETH CENTURY MARXISTS
Karl Johann Kautsky
Georgii Valentinovich Plekhanov
Vladimir Illyich Lenin
Rosa Luxemburg
Leon Trotsky
Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin
Antonio Gramsci
Herbert Marcuse
PART SIX: UNCONVENTIONAL MARXISTS
William Morris
Georges Sorel
Mao Zedong
PART ONE: THE PRECURSORS
Thomas More
James Harrington
PART TWO: EARLY SOCIALISTS
Saint Simon
Robert Owen
Charles Fourier
PART THREE: NINETEENTH CENTURY MARXISTS
Karl Heinrich Marx
Friedrich Engels
August Bebel
PART FOUR: SOCIAL DEMOCRATS
Ferdinand Lassalle
Eduard Bernstein
George Douglas Howard Cole
PART FIVE: TWENTIETH CENTURY MARXISTS
Karl Johann Kautsky
Georgii Valentinovich Plekhanov
Vladimir Illyich Lenin
Rosa Luxemburg
Leon Trotsky
Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin
Antonio Gramsci
Herbert Marcuse
PART SIX: UNCONVENTIONAL MARXISTS
William Morris
Georges Sorel
Mao Zedong