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CAPITALISM AND SOCIAL DEMOCRACY
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| By: |
Adam Przeworski, G.A. Cohen, Jon Elster |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521336562 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521336567 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
26 December, 1986 |
| Series: |
Studies in Marxism and Social Theory |
| Pages: |
280 |
| Description: |
Three principal choices, confronted by socialist movements as they developed within capitalist societies, are examined to trace the development of socialist strategies since the mid-19th century. |
| Synopsis: |
This is a study of the choices faced by socialist movements as they developed within capitalist societies. Professor Przeworski examines the three principal choices confronted by socialism: whether to work through elections; whether to rely exclusively on the working class; and whether to try to reform or abolish capitalism. He brings to his analysis a number of abstract models of political and economic structure, and illustrates the issues in the context of historical events, tracing the development of socialist strategies since the mid-nineteenth century. Several of the conclusions are novel and provocative. Professor Przeworski argues that economic issues cannot justify a socialist programme, and that the workers had good reasons to struggle for the improvement of capitalism. Therefore, the project of a socialist transformation, and the fight for economic advancement, were separate historical phenomena. |
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UK |
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Cambridge University Press |
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