LEADER 03535nam 22005652 450 001 9910785340703321 005 20170721122855.0 010 $a1-282-92138-X 010 $a9786612921384 010 $a1-84465-337-4 035 $a(CKB)2670000000059058 035 $a(OCoLC)715185703 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10455645 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000438917 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12127645 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000438917 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10459365 035 $a(PQKB)10571994 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3060929 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3060929 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10455645 035 $a(OCoLC)922958077 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781844653379 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000059058 100 $a20120626d2002|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aLeft in the wilderness $ethe political economy of British democratic socialism since 1979 /$fNoel Thompson$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aDurham :$cAcumen Publishing,$d2002. 215 $a1 online resource (viii, 312 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). 311 $a1-902683-53-6 311 $a1-902683-54-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aThe years since 1979 have seen unprecedented challenges to socialism, which have threatened to strip it of its social constituency, destroy its ideological foundations and render it prescriptively defunct. In this major assessment of the socialist project, Noel Thompson examines the state of socialist political economy in Britain considering how it has reacted to these challenges, and what its future might be. Thompson charts how its constituent elements have been shaped and articulated over the last twenty years, examining in turn the political economies of the “alternative economic”; municipal socialism, decentralised socialism, market socialism, Keynesian social democracy, supply-side socialism, radical stakeholderism, the Anglo-American-model social democracy and multinational socialism. Thompson shows how each of these has failed to counter effectively the ideological and material threats posed by neo-liberalism and transnational capitalism and, in a forceful and convincing analysis, argues that the capitalism which democratic socialism now confronts has left little theoretical or prescriptive room for socialist advance or manoeuvre. As we begin the twenty-first century its political economies appear theoretically exhausted and the Left in Britain has entered an ideological wilderness from which there seems little prospect of return. Left in the Wilderness is a challenging and uncompromising critique of socialist political economies from a socialist historian. Although its conclusions will not be welcomed by the Left, the author's penetrating analysis cannot be ignored. The book will be required reading for all students of recent British economic and political history. 606 $aSocialism$zGreat Britain 607 $aGreat Britain$xEconomic conditions$y1979-1997 607 $aGreat Britain$xEconomic policy$y1979-1997 615 0$aSocialism 676 $a320.53150941 700 $aThompson$b Noel W.$f1951-$0125026 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910785340703321 996 $aLeft in the wilderness$93855864 997 $aUNINA