Searching for socialism : (Record no. 672928)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN 1788738349
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN 9781788738347
082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 324.241070904
Edition number 23
Item number PAN.S
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Source of Number Colon Classification
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME
Personal name Panitch, Leo,
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Searching for socialism :
Sub Title the project of the Labour New Left from Benn to Corbyn /
Statement of responsibility, etc Leo Panitch and Colin Leys.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication NewYork:
Name of publisher Verso,
Year of publication 2020
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages 310 pages ;
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Beyond parliamentary socialism: Transforming the Labour Party -- The roots of labour's new left: From modernisation to democratisation -- The limits of policy: Searching for an alternative strategy -- A crisis of representation: The conflict over party democracy -- Disempowering activism: The path to new labour -- New labour in power: The dénouement of modernisation -- The left versus new labour: In and against the party -- Beyond new labour: The revival of the labour new left -- 'For the many, not just the few': Defending and evolving the new left project -- Implementing the new left project: possibilities and limitations -- The Brexit conjuncture and Corbyn's defeat.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc "Jeremy Corbyn's rapid ascent to the leadership of the Labour Party, driven by a groundswell of popular support particularly among the young, was met at the time by a baffled media. Just where did Jeremy Corbyn come from? In Searching for Socialism, Leo Panitch and Colin Leys argue that it is only by understanding Corbyn's roots in the Bennite Labour New Left's long struggle to transcend the limits of 'parliamentary socialism' and democratise the party, as a precondition for democratising the state, can you understand his surge to become leader of the party. Closely analyzing the forces inside the party aligned against Corbyn's leadership, Panitch and Leys explain what happened between the validation of the Corbyn project in the 2017 election, while advancing an ambitious programme of democratic socialist measures unmatched anywhere since the 1970s, and the electoral defeat amidst the Brexit conjuncture of 2019. They argue that while this defeat marked the farthest point to which the generation formed in the 1970s was able to carry the Labour new left project, it seems unlikely that the new generation of activists will quickly see any other way forward than continuing the struggle inside the Labour Party, so as to fundamentally change it. In the face of the contradictions being generated by twenty-first-century capitalism, and the need for discovering and developing new political forms adequate to addressing them, this book is required reading for democratic socialists, not just in Britain but everywhere." --
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Socialism
Geographic subdivision Great Britain
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Leys, Colin,
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        International Centre for Marxian Studies & Research International Centre for Marxian Studies & Research General Stacks 02/03/2023 324.241070904 PAN.S CMS2787 02/03/2023 Reference