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Socialism from below
- Title
- Socialism from below / Hal Draper ; essays selected, edited, and with an introduction by E. Haberkern.
- Author
- Draper, Hal.
- Publication
- Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Humanities Press, 1992.
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- Additional Authors
- Haberkern, E. (Ernest)
- Description
- xviii, 282 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "These essays by Hal Draper reflect his standing as a scholar, political journalist, and polemicist. The collection concentrates on what is of the greatest contemporary interest--his understanding of the meaning of socialism. In Draper's view, the divisions running through the history of the socialist movement between reformists and revolutionaries, authoritarians and democrats, were secondary; the important distinction was between those socialists who looked for some outside authority that would hand down salvation to the masses from above and those who saw the key to the reform of existing society in the struggle for self-emancipation from below." "The first part contains Draper's pamphlet, The Two Souls of Socialism, for over twenty years the most widely read and succinct statement of Draper's radically different view of contemporary politics, and also several historical studies showing how Marx was the only major nineteenth-century thinker to defend unequivocally the democratic movement from below. The second section, entitled "In Defense of Radicalism," contains Draper's main articles on the New Left of the 1960s. The final section, "Marxism and Its Critics," contains several polemical articles in defense of the Marxist approach. The last article in this section, describing the evolution of Marx and Engels from typical "New Leftists" of the 1840s to advocates of socialism from below, is an early version of what became several chapters in Draper's five-volume study of Marx's political theory and activity, and provides a fitting conclusion to this volume."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- Revolutionary studies
- Uniform Title
- Revolutionary studies.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The Two Souls of Socialism -- 1. The Two Souls of Socialism -- 2. Karl Marx and Simon Bolivar: A Note on Authoritarian Leadership in a National-Liberation Movement -- 3. The Fabian and the African, or How Sidney Webb Became Lord Passfield and Johnstone Kenyatta Became Jomo -- 4. Neo-Corporatists and Neo-Reformists -- 5. The "Socialism" That Died: A Political Obituary for Maynard Krueger -- 6. The New Social-Democratic Reformism -- In Defense of Radicalism -- 7. In Defense of the "New Radicals" -- 8. The Mind of Clark Kerr -- 9. Berkeley: The Student Revolt -- 10. Free Speech and Political Struggle -- Marxism and Its Critics -- 11. A Reply to Hal Draper: Is There a Socialism from Below? / Max Nomad -- 12. In Reply to Max Nomad: Is Oligarchy Inevitable? -- 13. Vladimir Ilyich Jefferson and Thomas Lenin -- 14. Marx, "Marxism," and Trade Unions -- 15. James Morrison and Working-Class Feminism -- 16. The Principle of Self-Emancipation in Marx and Engels.
- ISBN
- 0391037323
- 9780391037328
- LCCN
- 91016590
- OCLC
- ocm23766359
- 23766359
- SCSB-1942415
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library