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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820140603321

Autore

Dorrien Gary J.

Titolo

Social Democracy in the Making : Political and Religious Roots of European Socialism / / Gary Dorrien

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

0-300-24499-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (595 pages)

Classificazione

NK 6799

Disciplina

335.7

Soggetti

Socialism - Europe

History

Europe Politics and government 20th century

Europe

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- 1. CHRISTIAN SOCIALISM IN THE MAKING OF SOCIAL DEMOCRACY -- 2. BRITISH ORIGINS: ANGLICAN SOCIALISM, EARLY MARXISM, AND FABIAN COLLECTIVISM -- 3. GERMAN SOCIAL DEMOCRACY: MARXISM AS THEORY AND POLITICS -- 4. GERMANIC POLITICAL THEOLOGY: SOCIAL DEMOCRACY AS THEOLOGY -- 5. BRITISH BREAKTHROUGH: GUILD SOCIALIST VISIONS AND SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC REALITIES -- 6. DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM AS PLURALISTIC SOCIAL DEMOCRACY -- NOTES -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

An expansive and ambitious intellectual history of democratic socialism from one of the world's leading intellectual historians and social ethicists The fallout from twenty years of neoliberal economic globalism has sparked a surge of interest in the old idea of democratic socialism-a democracy in which the people control the economy and government, no group dominates any other, and every citizen is free, equal, and included. With a focus on the intertwined legacies of Christian socialism and Social Democratic politics in Britain and Germany, this book traces the story of democratic socialism from its birth in the nineteenth century through the mid†'1960s.   Examining the tenets on which the movement was founded and how it adapted to



different cultural, religious, and economic contexts from its beginnings through the social and political traumas of the twentieth century, Gary Dorrien reminds us that Christian socialism paved the way for all liberation theologies that make the struggles of oppressed peoples the subject of redemption. He argues for a decentralized economic democracy and anti-imperial internationalism.