A History of Socialist Thought: From the Precursors to the Present

A History of Socialist Thought: From the Precursors to the Present
ISBN-10
0761994653
ISBN-13
9780761994657
Series
A History of Socialist Thought
Category
Political Science
Pages
466
Language
English
Published
2000-10-26
Publisher
Sage Publications Pvt. Limited
Authors
Subrata Mukherjee, SUSHILA RAMASWAMY

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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