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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255295603321

Autore

Hak Gordon

Titolo

Locating the Left in Difficult Times : Framing a Political Discourse for the Present / / by Gordon Hak

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-54343-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 pages)

Disciplina

320.5

Soggetti

Political science

World politics

America - Politics and government

Labor

History

Intellectual life - History

Political Theory

Political History

American Politics

Political Science

Labor History

Intellectual History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. What We Mean When We Talk About Capitalism and the Left -- 3. Explorations in Discourse -- 4. The Question of Change -- 5. Listening to History -- 6. Institutions and -Isms to 1900 -- 7. A Left Comes into Its Own, 1900-1950 -- 8. Beyond Social Democracy -- 9. The Left Makes History, 1950-1975 -- 10. The Left in Retreat.-11. Current Affairs -- 12. Populism -- 13. Social Democracy and Market Socialism -- 14. An Anarchist Prospectus, Communism Revisited, a Dash of Populism.

Sommario/riassunto

This book investigates notions of the individual, society, the state, economic relations and historical change that exist in the political left



by drawing on contemporary philosophical, political and social thought. Using a discourse perspective, this work brings together the many fractious strains in the left, including social democracy, anarchism, communism and market socialism, and discusses them in terms of their relationships with each other. Not only does the study disentangle the left from liberal capitalism and progressive movements—such as those against racism and inequality—it sees the current left as intertwined with its history and its visions of the future. .