A Brief Global History of the Left

ISBN-13: 9781509558247 / Angielski / Twarda / 2024

Shlomo Sand

Spis treści

Introduction: Equality as the Great Modern Myth1. From the Levellers to the Enigma of Rousseau2. The Revolution, the Terror and the Conspiracy of Equals3. Utopia as Refuge, from Politics to Chartism4. Springtime of the Peoples: Paris, Capital of the Nineteenth Century5. Proudhon, Bakunin and Anarchism as Freedom6. Marx, Engels and 'Scientific' Socialism7. The Fourth Estate, Between Liberalism and Democracy8. Confronting Colonialism: The White Socialist's Burden9. Nation and Internationalism: Dying for Your Country10. Lenin and the State: Next to the Spinning Wheel and the Bronze Axe11. Blackshirts and Brownshirts: Right or Left?12. Mao and Chinese Communism: 'A Hundred Flowers'?13. The Socialist Imaginary in Postcolonial Countries14. The Welfare State, a Working-Class Triumph?15. Latin America and Opposition to the 'Big Stick'16. From the Civil Rights Movement to the May '67 Uprising17. The Struggle for Gender Equality: The Feminine Mystique18. The Rust-Belt Proletariat and the Return of Populism19. Consumption and Ecology: The Discreet Charm of the BourgeoisieA Melancholy Conclusion: Inequality and the Pandemic

O autorze

Shlomo Sand is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Tel Aviv.