Socialism Unbound - Principles, Practices, and Prospects 2e

2. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-231-15382-9
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 488 g

Reihe: Columbia Studies in Political Thought / Political History

Published more than twenty years ago, Stephen Eric Bronner's bold defense of socialism remains a seminal text for our time. Treating socialism as an ethic, reinterpreting its core categories, and critically confronting its early foundations, Bronner's work offers a reinvigorated "class ideal" and a new perspective for progressive politics in the twentieth century.

Socialism Unbound is an extraordinary work of political history that revisits the pivotal figures of the labor movement: Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Karl Kautsky, Vladimir Lenin, and Rosa Luxemburg. Examining their contributions as well as their flaws, Bronner shows how critical innovation gave way to dogma. New practical problems have arisen, and this volume engages with the relationship between class and social movements, institutional accountability and democratic participation, economic justice and market imperatives, and internationalism and identity. With a foreword by Dick Howard and a new introduction by the author, Bronner's classic study remains indispensable for scholars and activists alike.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bronner, Stephen Eric

Weitere Mitwirkende

Howard, Dick

Bronner, Stephen Eric

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Sozialismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Dick HowardPreface to the New Second EditionAcknowledgments1. The Democratic Legacy of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels2. Karl Kautsky: The Rise and Fall of Orthodox Marxism3. Eduard Bernstein and the Logic of Revisionism4. Leninism and Beyond5. A Bridge to the Present: Rosa Luxemburg and the Underground Tradition6. Recasting the Project: Prologue for a Critical Theory of SocialismNotesIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen Eric Bronner is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and director of civic diplomacy and human rights at the Institute for World Challenges, Rutgers University. Chair of the executive committee at U.S. Academics for Peace and senior editor of the internet journal Logos, he has published more than twenty-five books, including Critical Theory: A Very Short Introduction; Camus: Portrait of a Moralist; Peace Out of Reach: Middle Eastern Travels and the Search for Reconciliation; and Reclaiming the Enlightenment: Toward a Politics of Radical Engagement. He received the Michael A. Harrington Prize for Moments of Decision: Political History and the Crises of Radicalism.

Dick Howard is distinguished professor of philosophy at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. He is the author of The Primacy of the Political: A History of Political Thought from the Greeks to the French and American Revolutions and The Specter of Democracy: What Marx and Marxists Haven't Understood and Why.