explain the following questions in 1000 words: what is socialism? and how has it impacted contemporary democratic policies in the 20th century?
needs to be a detailed explanation and just answer the questions above
tell me what is socialism, give description and then elaborate on second question, the impacts
some references available:
Robert Eccleshall et al., Political Ideologies: An Introduction – read Chapter 4, ‘Socialism’.
Robert Eccleshall et al., Political Ideologies: An Introduction – read Chapter 4, ‘Socialism’.
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto, available here.
Socialism:
Zygmunt Bauman, Socialism: the Active Utopia (2009) [Ebook available]
Erzsebet Szalai, Socialism: An Analysis of its Past and Future (2005) [Ebook available]
Andrew Heywood (2017) Political Ideologies: An Introduction. London: Palgrave. (Chapter on Socialism)
Andrew Vincent (2010) Modern Political Ideologies, 3rd edn. Oxford: Blackwell. (Chapter 4)
R.H. Tawney (1964) Equality. London: George Allen and Unwin.
Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel (1992) ‘Socialism As It Was Always Meant To Be’, Review of Radical Political Economics 24, No.3-4, pp.46-66.
R.N. Berki (1975) Socialism, London: Dent.
F.M. Barnard and R.A. Vernon (1977) ‘Socialist Pluralism and Pluralist Socialism’, Political Studies, Vol.XXV, No.4, pp.474-490.
Anthony Butler (1997) Transformative Politics: The Future of Socialism in Western Europe, London: Macmillan.
Bernard Crick (1987) Socialism, Open University Press.
John Dunn (1985) The Politics of Socialism and Rethinking Modern Political Theory, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
John Dunn (1984) The Politics of Socialism, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Samuel Friedman (2012) ‘What Might Socialism Look Like?’, Critical Sociology, Vol. 38, No.4, pp. 599-610.
Social Democracy and the British Labour Party
David Coates, “Capitalist models and social democracy: the case of New Labour.” The British Journal of Politics & International Relations 3.3 (2001): 284-307.
Lewis Bassett “Corbynism: Social Democracy in a New Left Garb.” The Political Quarterly 90.4 (2019): 777-784.
Andrew Gamble and Tony Wright (1999) The New Social Democracy, Oxford: Blackwell. 48
Anthony Giddens (1998) The Third Way, Cambridge: Polity.
Anthony Giddens (2000) The Third Way and its Critics, Cambridge: Polity.
Paul Edward Gottfried, The Strange Death of Marxism: The European Left in the New Millennium (2005) [Ebook available]
C.A.R. Crosland (1956) The Future of Socialism. London: Cape.
R. Crossman (ed.) (1952) New Fabian Essays. London: Turnstile Press.
Patrick Diamond (ed.) (2004) New Labour’s Old Roots: Revisionist Thinkers in Labour’s History 1937-97. Exeter: Imprint Academic.
R. Plant, M. Beech and K. Hickson (eds) (2004) The Struggle for Labour’s Soul: Understanding Labour’s Political Thought since 1945. London: Routledge.
Tudor Jones (1996) Remaking the Labour Party: From Gaitskell to Blair, London: Routledge.
Michael Lessnoff (1979) ‘Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy’, Political Studies, Vol. XXVII, No.4, pp.594-602.
David Marquand (1993) ‘After Socialism’, Political Studies, No.41, pp.43-56.
Marxism:
Karl Marx, Capital: Volume I (1867) available here.
Geoff Boucher, Understanding Marxism (2014) [Ebook available]
Sobhanlal Datta Gupta, Marxism in Dark Times: Select Essays for the New Century (2012) [Ebook available]
Alexander Anievasm, Marxism and World Politics: Contesting Global Capitalism (2010) [Ebook available]