Introduction to Political Theory

Rosa Luxemburg, the Bolshevik Revolution and Stalinism Marx’s ‘support’ for the Paris Commune is not an isolated example. The Po ...

The dilemma of democratic socialism Until 1914 (as already noted), the term ‘social democrat’ was widely adopted. It was used bo ...

From then on, the concept of a social democrat became a term of differentiation, with the emphasis now on democracy. Socialists ...

German parliament. Under renewed pressure from Bismarck, Bernstein was forced to leave Switzerland, and went to London. In 1890 ...

inevitability – a fusion of what is and what ought to be – must be decisively rejected. ‘No ism is a science’ (Gay, 1962: 158). ...

The Labour Party, constitutionalism and the trade unions The Labour Representative Committee in 1900 was formed by trade unions. ...

Labour’s ethical roots (Wright, 1996: x). We must retain, he argues, the values and principles underlying democratic socialism b ...

British Labour and the ‘third way’ The strategy of the ‘third way’ has been adopted by the social democratic parties of European ...

between revolution and counter-revolution, and this leads to the kind of insecurity and division that generates despotism rather ...

For this reason, Marx is right to argue that if we want to dispense with the need for an institution claiming a monopoly of legi ...

Although the victims of crime in, say, contemporary South Africa are predominantly the poor who live in the shanty towns, this s ...

Chapter 10 Socialism 233 The problem of determinism and free will Bauman has argued that utopianism is compatible with everythin ...

Bernstein is a case in point. On the one hand, he saw himself as a positivist who stuck rigorously to the facts. On the other ha ...

Summary Socialism is certainly a broad church, but underlying its numerous forms is a concern with cooperation and equality, a b ...

Hunt, R. (1975) The Political Ideas of Marx and Engelsvol. 1, Basingstoke: Macmillan. Independent(2003) ‘Britain Today: A Nation ...

Chapter 11 Anarchism Introduction Much is made in the press about the frequent anti-capitalist protests happening in various cit ...

Death in Genoa O n a sunny Italian morning, a group of young politics students landed in Genoa to protest against the G8 summit. ...

against them. Terrified, the crowds disperse, but are tracked by helicopters, from which further gas canisters rain down. Many a ...

The relationship with socialism In her Using Political Ideas(1997) Barbara Goodwin has a separate chapter on anarchism and argue ...

Godwin was opposed to property, the market and acquisitiveness in general, but he was no socialist. His opposition to the state ...