Locating the Left in Difficult Times: Framing a Political Discourse for the Present

ISBN-13: 9783319543420 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 213 str.

Gordon Hak

Opis

This book investigates notions of the individual, society, the state, economic relations and historical change that exist in the political left by drawing on contemporary philosophical, political and social thought.

Spis treści

1. Introduction 

Part I   Theoretically Speaking

2.  What we mean when we talk about capitalism and the left 

3.  Explorations in discourse 

4.  The question of change

Part II    Locations in History

5.  Listening to history

6.  Institutions and isms to 1900  

7.  A left comes into its own, 1900-1950   

8.  Beyond social democracy 

9. The left makes history, 1950-1975  

Part III   Present Tensions 

10.  The left in retreat   

11. Current affairs   

12. Populism      

Part IV    Conditional Futures

13.  Social democracy and market socialism  

14.  An anarchist prospectus, communism revisited, a dash of populism

Bibliography

O autorze

Gordon Hak is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at Vancouver Island University, CN

Blurb

This book investigates notions of the individual, society, the state, economic relations and historical change that exist in the political left by drawing on contemporary philosophical, political and social thought. Using a discourse perspective, this work brings together the many fractious strains in the left, including social democracy, anarchism, communism and market socialism,  and discusses them in terms of their relationships with each other. Not only does the study disentangle the left from liberal capitalism and progressive movements—such as those against racism and inequality—it sees the current left as intertwined with its history and its visions of the future.