Capitalism and Social Democracy
Adam Przeworski
This is a study of the choices faced by socialist movements as they developed within capitalist societies. Professor Przeworski examines the three principal choices confronted by socialism: whether to work through elections; whether to rely exclusively on the working class; and whether to try to reform or abolish capitalism. He brings to his analysis a number of abstract models of political and economic structure, and illustrates the issues in the context of historical events, tracing the development of socialist strategies since the mid-nineteenth century. Several of the conclusions are novel and provocative. Professor Przeworski argues that economic issues cannot justify a socialist programme, and that the workers had good reasons to struggle for the improvement of capitalism. Therefore, the project of a socialist transformation, and the fight for economic advancement, were separate historical phenomena.
ISBN : 9780521336567
ISBN : 9780521336567
ปี:
1986
สำนักพิมพ์:
Cambridge University Press
ภาษา:
english
ISBN 10:
0521336562
ISBN 13:
9780521336567
ไฟล์:
PDF, 10.41 MB
IPFS:
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english, 1986