Parliamentary Socialism: A Study in the Politics of Labour - Softcover

Miliband, Ralph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0850361354 ISBN 13: 9780850361353

Publisher: The Merlin Press Ltd., 2009

Synopsis

Reflecting on the Labor government of Harold Wilson between 1964 and 1970, this concise analysis chronicles the Labor Party from its early days up to the early 1960s, including a 1972 postscript. Demonstrating how empirical and flexible the Labor Party has been about certain issues, this reference also touches on how it is one of the most dogmatic political parties in regards to the parliamentary system. Commenting on why its leaders have always made devotion to this system their fixed point of reference, this political overview proves that this has always been the conditioning factor of their political behavior, as they consistently reject any kind of political action which has fallen outside the framework and conventions of Parliament. Stating that there is no distinction to be made between Labor’s political and industrial leaders, this study illustrates the party as it is now and has always been one of modest social reform in a capitalist system within whose confines it is ever more firmly and by now irrevocably rooted.

About this title

Review:

"One of the seminal texts of the British New Left." Leo Panitch, professor, political science, York University Toronto"

About the Author:

Ralph Miliband was one of the key intellectual figures of the British New Left and the founder of the Socialist Register. He was a professor at the London School of Economics, Brandeis University, York University–Toronto, and the Graduate Centre of the City University of New York and was chair of politics at the University of Leeds. He is the author of Divided Societies: Class Struggle in Contemporary Capitalism, Marxism and Politics, and Socialism for a Sceptical Age. He is the coeditor of A Dictionary of Marxist Thought.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Merlin Press Ltd.
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0850361354
• ISBN 13: 9780850361353
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 388