The Cambridge History of Socialism

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This volume describes the various movements and parties, across all six continents, that wanted social change through state transformation. It begins with a reconstruction of social democracy's trajectories from the 1870s until the present. The evolution of socialism on different continents is illustrated through a number of national case studies. Experiments at a subnational level (for example, municipal socialism) are also explored, as are the varying experiences of international umbrella organizations. The next part focuses on divergent socialist experiments and ideologies in several parts of the world, including South Asia, Africa, the Arab world, Brazil, Venezuela, and Israel/Palestine, followed by an overview of 'independent' socialist movements, including left-socialist parties of the 1930s and the post-war period, and the global New Left since its beginnings in the 1950s. The volume concludes with critical essays on socialism's long-term and global development. Cover Half-title page Series page Title page Copyright page Contents List of Figures List of Maps List of Tables List of Contributors to Volume II List of Abbreviations Introduction to Volume II Part I Transforming State Power Social Democratic Routes in Europe 1 Social Democracy in Germany 2 Social Democracy in Austria 3 Social Democracy in Sweden 4 The British Labour Party 5 Social Democracy in Georgia 6 The General Jewish Workers’ Bund Social Democratic Routes in Australia, the Americas, and Asia 7 The Australian Labor Party 8 Social Democracy in Argentina 9 The Partido dos Trabalhadores in Brazil 10 A Persistent Whisper: The Social Democratic Idea in US History 11 Social Democracy in Japan Worldwide Connections 12 The Second International: 1889–1914 13 The Second International Reconstituted: The Labour and Socialist International, 1923–1940 14 The Rise and Fall of the Asian Socialist Conference: 1952–1956 15 The Socialist International, 1951–, and the Progressive Alliance, 2013– 16 Municipal Socialism Southern Trajectories 17 Socialism, Zionism, and Settler Colonialism in Israel/Palestine 18 Socialism in India 19 The Lanka Sama Samaja Party 20 African Socialism 21 Arab Socialism 22 Chavismo: Revolutionary Bolivarianism in Venezuela Left Socialisms 23 The London Bureau 24 European Left Socialist Parties since the 1950s 25 The New Left as a Global Current since the Late 1950s Part II Transversal Perspectives 26 Socialism and Colonialism 27 Socialism, Gender, and the Emancipation of Women 28 Socialism and Ecology 29 Crises and Futures of Social Democracy Index