A History of Socialist Thought

From the Precursors to the Present
1. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-0-7619-9465-7
Verlag: SAGE Publications Inc

Buch, Englisch, 468 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 520 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mukherjee, Subrata

Ramaswamy, Sushila

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Sozialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
PART ONE: THE PRECURSORS
Thomas More
James Harrington
PART TWO: EARLY SOCIALISTS
Saint Simon
Robert Owen
Charles Fourier
PART THREE: NINETEENTH CENTURY MARXISTS
Karl Heinrich Marx
Friedrich Engels
August Bebel
PART FOUR: SOCIAL DEMOCRATS
Ferdinand Lassalle
Eduard Bernstein
George Douglas Howard Cole
PART FIVE: TWENTIETH CENTURY MARXISTS
Karl Johann Kautsky
Georgii Valentinovich Plekhanov
Vladimir Illyich Lenin
Rosa Luxemburg
Leon Trotsky
Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin
Antonio Gramsci
Herbert Marcuse
PART SIX: UNCONVENTIONAL MARXISTS
William Morris
Georges Sorel
Mao Zedong