The Retreat From Class A New 'True' Socialsim,9781859842706

The Retreat From Class A New 'True' Socialsim

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Edition: Reprint
ISBN13: 9781859842706
ISBN10: 1859842704
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-01-17
Publisher(s): Verso
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Summary

In this classic study, which won the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize, Ellen Wood provides a survey of influential trends in contemporary Marxist theory. Identifying a common trend to dissociate political analysis from class interest, she pursues her own conception of the complex but undeniable relations between class, politics and ideology. In a new introduction, Wood discusses the relevance of The Retreat From Class in a post-Soviet world. She locates post-Marxism as a predecessor to current academic trends such as postmodernism, and argues that a re-examination of class politics by academia is one way out of the current, cynical acceptance of capitalism.

Author Biography

Ellen Meiksins Wood, for many years Professor of Political Science at York University, Toronto, is the author of many books, including Democracy Against Capitalism and, with Verso, The Pristine Culture of Capitalism, The Origin of Capitalism, Peasant-Citizen and Slave, Citizens to Lords, Empire of Capital and Liberty and Property.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix(2)
Introduction to the New Edition xi
1 The New 'True' Socialism
1(11)
2 The Journey to the New 'True' Socialism: Displacing Class Struggle and the Working Class
12(13)
3 The Forerunner: Nicos Poulantzas
25(22)
4 The Autonomization of Ideology and Politics
47(28)
5 The Randomization of History and Politics
75(15)
6 Politics and Class
90(12)
7 The Non-Correspondence Principle: A Historical Case
102(14)
8 Platonic Marxism
116(14)
9 Socialism and Democracy
130(10)
10 Capitalism, Liberalism, Socialism
140(27)
11 Socialism and 'Universal Human Goods'
167(13)
12 Conclusions
180(21)
Index 201

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