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Socialism Unbound: Principles, Practices, and Prospects
Contributor(s): Bronner, Stephen Eric (Author), Howard, Dick (Foreword by), Bronner, Stephen Eric (Preface by)
ISBN: 0231153821     ISBN-13: 9780231153829
Publisher: Columbia University Press
OUR PRICE:   $118.80  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: November 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism
- Political Science | History & Theory - General
- Philosophy | Political
Dewey: 335.4
LCCN: 2011004569
Lexile Measure: 1430
Series: Columbia Studies in Political Thought / Political History
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" (1.10 lbs) 264 pages
 
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Published more than twenty years ago, Stephen Eric Bronner's bold defense of socialism remains a seminal text for our time. Treating socialism as an ethic, reinterpreting its core categories, and critically confronting its early foundations, Bronner's work offers a reinvigorated "class ideal" and a new perspective for progressive politics in the twentieth century.

Socialism Unbound is an extraordinary work of political history that revisits the pivotal figures of the labor movement: Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Karl Kautsky, Vladimir Lenin, and Rosa Luxemburg. Examining their contributions as well as their flaws, Bronner shows how critical innovation gave way to dogma. New practical problems have arisen, and this volume engages with the relationship between class and social movements, institutional accountability and democratic participation, economic justice and market imperatives, and internationalism and identity. With a foreword by Dick Howard and a new introduction by the author, Bronner's classic study remains indispensable for scholars and activists alike.

Contributor Bio(s): Howard, Dick: - Dick Howard (PhD, Philosophy, Texas) is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at SUNY Stony Brook. He is the author of Between Politics and Antipolitics: Thinking About Politics After 9/11 (Palgrave, 2016), The Primacy of the Political: A History of Political Thought from the Greeks to the American and French Revolutions (Columbia, 2010), and The Specter of Democracy (Columbia, 2006), among other titles. He is also a columnist for Le Monde on the American political scene.