Essential Works of Socialism

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SOCIOLOGY
Essential Works of Socialism
Third Edition edited by Irving Howe
This classic anthology of major works by socialists from Marx to contemporary writers is now available in a new, substantially revised edition. Editor Irving Howe has deleted several essays from the previous edition that are widely available elsewhere and has added five essays representing recent efforts to rethink the socialist project in light of the political experiences of the past half century— including, for example, the disasters of totalitarianism and the real, if hmited, achievements of the welfare state.
Howe, who has been called "our best living socialist writer," says in the preface to this third edition: "Socialism now finds itself, like all other serious movements and ideas, in a state of deep and chronic crisis, a breakdown of certainties and boundaries, a blurring of self-definition, a loss of assertiveness." The new essays in this edition, works by R. H. Tawney, Alec Nove, Michael... Tovább

Fülszöveg

SOCIOLOGY
Essential Works of Socialism
Third Edition edited by Irving Howe
This classic anthology of major works by socialists from Marx to contemporary writers is now available in a new, substantially revised edition. Editor Irving Howe has deleted several essays from the previous edition that are widely available elsewhere and has added five essays representing recent efforts to rethink the socialist project in light of the political experiences of the past half century— including, for example, the disasters of totalitarianism and the real, if hmited, achievements of the welfare state.
Howe, who has been called "our best living socialist writer," says in the preface to this third edition: "Socialism now finds itself, like all other serious movements and ideas, in a state of deep and chronic crisis, a breakdown of certainties and boundaries, a blurring of self-definition, a loss of assertiveness." The new essays in this edition, works by R. H. Tawney, Alec Nove, Michael Harrington, Erazim V. Kohak, and Irving Howe, address ihis crisis by emphasizing the case for a democratic socialist society. They illustrate how democratic socialists, even while beset by many grave problems of the moment, are struggling to make their conception of a socialist future more serious and concrete.
The selections included—old and new—are crucial texts in the development of socialist thought. The comprehensiveness and variety of the collection make it an essential resource for understanding socialist thought.
Irving Howe is Distinguished Professor of English at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
Yale University Press New Haven and London Vissza