Revisionism, past and present

From: Renewal : a Journal of Labour Politics | Date: April 1, 2007| Author: Fishman, Nina | Copyright information

At a recent Policy Network seminar Giles Radice made the case for the periodic revision of social democratic ideas. Explaining that Anthony Crosland had written The Future of Socialism in 1 956 in self-conscious emulation of the German Marxist Eduard Bernstein's writing at the end of the nineteenth century,1 he argued that such projects were necessary to ensure that social democratic parties took account of new developments and remained capable of governing. Radice cited Tony Blair's success ...

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