Social Democracy and the Aristocracy: Why Socialist Labor Movements Developed in Some Industrial Countries and Not in Others

ISBN-13: 9781138514652 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 231 str.

John H. Kautsky

Opis

Social Democracy and Aristocracy is an important contribution to political thought in the post-Marxist world. Its global approach makes it uniquely valuable for the comparative study of labor history and economic development.

Spis treści

1. Aristocratic Class Consciousness and Survival  2. The New Working Class and Its Class Consciousness  3. Socialist Parties Without a Mass Labor Base  4. The Growth and Optimism of Early Social Democracy  5. The Socialist Position on Democracy on Capitalism and on the Aristocracy  6. The End of Socialist Growth the Need for NonWorkers Votes and the Changing Working Class  7. From Workers Party to Peoples Party From Exclusion to Partnership  8. The Social Democrats Achievements and Prospects  9. The Evolution of Japanese Social Democracy  10. Britain the United States and Canada Late Socialism No Socialism and Little Socialism  11. The Aristocracy and Modernization From Without  12. The Modernizers Revolution Their Regime and Their Dilemma  13. Societies in the Wake of Modernizing Regimes  14. Labor Under Post Modernizing Regimes 15. The Absence of Socialist Labor Parties

O autorze

John H. Kautsky is professor emeritus of political science at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of Karl Kautsky, The Politics of Aristocratic Empires (both available from Transaction), and Marxism and Leninism, Not Marxism-Leninism.