Research Catalog

Title

Towards socialist democracy / Martin Legassick.

Author

Legassick, Martin.

Publication

Scottsville, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press : Johannesburg : Thorold's Africana Books [distributor], 2007.

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Description

xxix, 725 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Socialism > South Africa
• Socialism > South Africa > History > 20th century
• Government, Resistance to > South Africa > History > 20th century
• Socialism > History > 20th century
• Democracy > South Africa
• Socialism > South Africa > 20th century
• South Africa > Politics and government > 20th century

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Distributor information from label.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 577-709) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

By way of introduction -- The roots of the present world crisis. World capitalism and the necessity of socialism ; The theory and practice of permanent revolution ; The rise of Stalinism -- South Africa : resistance to conquest and capitalism. The 1928 'black republic' resolution of the Communist Party of South Africa ; The rise of a mass African Nationalist Congress, 1948-56 ; From the Alexander bus boycott to Sharpeville, 1957-60 ; Sharpeville and its aftermath -- The nature of post-capitalist states in the twentieth century. The nature of the Soviet state ; The Chinese revolution and its significance ; The new South African Communist Party analysis of the Soviet state ; The debate around Slovo's 'Has socialism failed?' -- South Africa : the struggle for national and social liberation, 1960-94. The strategy of armed struggle in southern Africa, 1961-75 ; The revolutionary upsurge of the 1980s -- South Africa in the twenty-first century. The South African political economy ; Wealth, poverty and unemployment ; Conclusion : a political way forward.

ISBN

• 9781869140946
• 186914094X

LCCN

^^2007332730

OCLC

164284019

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library