One Hundred Years of Socialism: The West European Left in the Twentieth Century.

History Today | May 1, 1997| | Copyright

The Christian Socialist Movement had 500 members in 1875; today it has 4,000, including forty-two MP's and half of the shadow cabinet. The resurgence of Christian socialism reflects a decline in other forms of left-wing politics. Tony Blair wrote, in 1995, that `since the collapse of Communism, the ethical basis of socialism is the only one that stood the test of time'. Christian socialism benefited also, however, from the callousness of Thatcherism. With the Conservative Party denying the very idea of society and effectively excluding ethics from economics, the Labour Party ...

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