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Capitalism and Social Democracy (Studies in Marxism and Social Theory)

By Adam Przeworski

Book information

Year
1986
ISBN
0521336562, 9780521336567, 0521267420, 9780521267427, 273510172X, 9782735101726
LCC
HX73 .P79 1985
Open Library ID
OL14477632M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10567950 bytes)
Pages
280\273
Topic
Education
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This is a study of the choices faced by socialist movements as they developed within capitalist societies. Professor Przeworski examines the three principal choices confronted by socialism: whether to work through elections; whether to rely exclusively on the working class; and whether to try to reform or abolish capitalism. He brings to his analysis a number of abstract models of political and economic structure, and illustrates the issues in the context of historical events, tracing the development of socialist strategies since the mid-nineteenth century. Several of the conclusions are novel and provocative. Professor Przeworski argues that economic issues cannot justify a socialist programme, and that the workers had good reasons to struggle for the improvement of capitalism. Therefore, the project of a socialist transformation, and the fight for economic advancement, were separate historical phenomena.

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