| The Hard Road to Renewal: Thatcherism and the Crisis of the Left Contributor(s): Hall, Stuart (Author) |
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ISBN: 1839761369 ISBN-13: 9781839761362 Publisher: Verso OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Process - Political Parties - Political Science | Commentary & Opinion - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism |
| Dewey: 335.009 |
| LCCN: 2022545768 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.4" W x 8.2" (0.61 lbs) 304 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Stuart Hall's writings on the political impact of Margaret Thatcher have established him as the most prescient and insightful analyst of contemporary Conservatism Collected here for the first time with a new introduction, these essays show how Thatcher has exploited discontent with Labour's record in office and with aspects of the welfare state to devise a potent authoritarian, populist ideology. Hall's critical approach is elaborated here in essays on the formation of the SDP, inner city riots, the Falklands War and the signficance of Antonio Gramsci. He suggests that Thatcherism is skillfully employing the restless and individualistic dynamic of consumer capitalism to promote a swingeing programme of 'regressive modernization'. The Hard Road to Renewal is as concerned with elaborating a new politics for the Left as it is with the project of the Right. Hall insists that the Left can no longer trade on inherited politics and tradition. Socialists today must be as radical as modernity itself. Valuable pointers to a new politics are identified in the experience of feminism, the campaigns of the GLC and the world-wide response to Band Aid. |
