Social Democracy and the Aristocracy

Herausgeber: Kautsky, John H

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Produktbeschreibung

Ever since the rise of mass labor movements in the late nineteenth century, socialism has been seen as an inevitable and antagonistic response to capitalism and the spread of industrialization. Over the course of the twentieth century, however, socialism's failure to gain ground in the United States and most of the non-Western world exposed the limited, Eurocentric views of socialist theorists, and also the inadequacy of the theory as it applied to Europe as well. John Kautsky argues that a key factor in the development of social democratic labor movements was the persistence of powerful remnants of aristocratic institutions and ideologies whose survival into the industrial age preserved exclusionary hierarchies. These led, in turn, to radicalism and class consciousness among workers. Kautsky traces the evolution of socialist labor movements in Europe and Japan where aristocratic elements were still strong, detailing the survival of aristocratic privilege and the concomitants of worker class consciousness and demands for equality. He shows how social democratic reliance on free elections was primarily a weapon against the aristocracy rather than capitalism. Contradicting socialist theory, working-class growth came to an end, class lines became blurred, and a considerable degree of equality was achieved through the welfare state. Kautsky turns to those countries that were sufficiently industrialized to have large numbers of workers, but also had reasonably free elections, civil liberties, and less repression of trade unions. Though the United States, Canada, post-Soviet Russia, Mexico, and India have very different histories and societies, their workers have not confronted a powerfularistocracy. Great Britain, the first and for long the most advanced industrial country, was virtually the last to develop a socialist labor movement. In contrast, socialist movements in Canada and the United States, where egalitarian traditions were strong, found little s

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 160mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9780765800916
• ISBN-10: 0765800918
• Artikelnr.: 21820193

Autorenporträt

Kautsky, The Politics of Aristocratic Empires (both available from Transaction), and Marxism and Leninism, Not Marxism-Leninism.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Aristocratic Class Consciousness and Survival 2. The New Working Class
and Its Class Consciousness 3. Socialist Parties Without a Mass Labor Base
4. The Growth and Optimism of Early Social Democracy 5. The Socialist
Position on Democracy on Capitalism and on the Aristocracy 6. The End of
Socialist Growth the Need for NonWorkers Votes and the Changing Working
Class 7. From Workers Party to Peoples Party From Exclusion to Partnership
8. The Social Democrats Achievements and Prospects 9. The Evolution of
Japanese Social Democracy 10. Britain the United States and Canada Late
Socialism No Socialism and Little Socialism 11. The Aristocracy and
Modernization From Without 12. The Modernizers Revolution Their Regime and
Their Dilemma 13. Societies in the Wake of Modernizing Regimes 14. Labor
Under Post Modernizing Regimes 15. The Absence of Socialist Labor Parties