Socialism Unbound: Principles, Practices, and Prospects

Stephen Eric Bronner

Published by Columbia University Press 2011

Socialism Unbound

Principles, Practices, and Prospects

Stephen Eric Bronner
With contributions by: Stephen Eric Bronner
Preface by: Dick Howard

In the series Columbia Studies in Political Thought / Political History

https://doi.org/10.7312/bron15382

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Published more than twenty years ago, Stephen Eric Bronner's bold defense of socialism remains a seminal text for our time. Treating socialism as an ethic, reinterpreting its core categories, and critically confronting its early foundations, Bronner's work offers a reinvigorated "class ideal" and a new perspective for progressive politics in the twentieth century.

Socialism Unbound is an extraordinary work of political history that revisits the pivotal figures of the labor movement: Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Karl Kautsky, Vladimir Lenin, and Rosa Luxemburg. Examining their contributions as well as their flaws, Bronner shows how critical innovation gave way to dogma. New practical problems have arisen, and this volume engages with the relationship between class and social movements, institutional accountability and democratic participation, economic justice and market imperatives, and internationalism and identity. With a foreword by Dick Howard and a new introduction by the author, Bronner's classic study remains indispensable for scholars and activists alike.

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Stephen Eric Bronner is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and director of civic diplomacy and human rights at the Institute for World Challenges, Rutgers University. Chair of the executive committee at U.S. Academics for Peace and senior editor of the internet journal Logos, he has published more than twenty-five books, including Critical Theory: A Very Short Introduction; Camus: Portrait of a Moralist; Peace Out of Reach: Middle Eastern Travels and the Search for Reconciliation; and Reclaiming the Enlightenment: Toward a Politics of Radical Engagement. He received the Michael A. Harrington Prize for Moments of Decision: Political History and the Crises of Radicalism.

Dick Howard is distinguished professor of philosophy at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. He is the author of The Primacy of the Political: A History of Political Thought from the Greeks to the French and American Revolutions and The Specter of Democracy: What Marx and Marxists Haven't Understood and Why.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Foreword Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
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1. The Democratic Legacy of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Karl Kautsky: The Rise and Fall of Orthodox Marxism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
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5. A Bridge to the Present: Rosa Luxemburg and the Underground Tradition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
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Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Edition: Second Edition
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 264

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Published: November 22, 2011
ISBN: 9780231527354