This volume describes the various movements and parties, across all six continents, that wanted social change through state transformation. It begins with a reconstruction of social democracy's trajectories from the 1870s until the present. The evolution of socialism on different continents is illustrated through a number of national case studies. Experiments at a subnational level (for example, municipal socialism) are also explored, as are the varying experiences of international umbrella organizations. The next part focuses on divergent socialist experiments and ideologies in several parts of the world, including South Asia, Africa, the Arab world, Brazil, Venezuela, and Israel/Palestine, followed by an overview of 'independent' socialist movements, including left-socialist parties of the 1930s and the post-war period, and the global New Left since its beginnings in the 1950s. The volume concludes with critical essays on socialism's long-term and global development.
Author(s): Marcel van der Linden (ed.)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 780
Cover
Half-title page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
List of Figures
List of Maps
List of Tables
List of Contributors to Volume II
List of Abbreviations
Introduction to Volume II
Part I Transforming State Power
Social Democratic Routes in Europe
1 Social Democracy in Germany
2 Social Democracy in Austria
3 Social Democracy in Sweden
4 The British Labour Party
5 Social Democracy in Georgia
6 The General Jewish Workers’ Bund
Social Democratic Routes in Australia, the Americas, and Asia
7 The Australian Labor Party
8 Social Democracy in Argentina
9 The Partido dos Trabalhadores in Brazil
10 A Persistent Whisper: The Social Democratic Idea in US History
11 Social Democracy in Japan
Worldwide Connections
12 The Second International: 1889–1914
13 The Second International Reconstituted: The Labour and Socialist International, 1923–1940
14 The Rise and Fall of the Asian Socialist Conference: 1952–1956
15 The Socialist International, 1951–, and the Progressive Alliance, 2013–
16 Municipal Socialism
Southern Trajectories
17 Socialism, Zionism, and Settler Colonialism in Israel/Palestine
18 Socialism in India
19 The Lanka Sama Samaja Party
20 African Socialism
21 Arab Socialism
22 Chavismo: Revolutionary Bolivarianism in Venezuela
Left Socialisms
23 The London Bureau
24 European Left Socialist Parties since the 1950s
25 The New Left as a Global Current since the Late 1950s
Part II Transversal Perspectives
26 Socialism and Colonialism
27 Socialism, Gender, and the Emancipation of Women
28 Socialism and Ecology
29 Crises and Futures of Social Democracy
Index
