Capitalism and Social Democracy, Page 79This is a study of the choices faced by socialist movements as they developed within capitalist societies. Professor Przeworski examines the three principal choices confronted by socialism: whether to work through elections; whether to rely exclusively on the working class; and whether to try to reform or abolish capitalism. He brings to his analysis a number of abstract models of political and economic structure, and illustrates the issues in the context of historical events, tracing the development of socialist strategies since the mid-nineteenth century. Several of the conclusions are novel and provocative. Professor Przeworski argues that economic issues cannot justify a socialist programme, and that the workers had good reasons to struggle for the improvement of capitalism. Therefore, the project of a socialist transformation, and the fight for economic advancement, were separate historical phenomena. |
Contents
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Further Evidence | 126 |
Conclusion | 128 |
Appendix | 129 |
Material Bases of Consent | 133 |
Capitalism Hegemony and Democracy | 136 |
Reproduction of Consent of WageEarners | 145 |
Accumulation and Legitimation | 148 |
Conjunctures and Crises | 157 |
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Party Strategies and Their Consequences | 111 |
Choice and Necessity | 114 |
Are Socialist Leaders VoteMaximizers? | 118 |
Historical Patterns of Class Voting | 121 |
Breakdown of Consent and Force | 163 |
Material Interests Class Compromise and the State | 171 |
The Problem Defined | 172 |
The Form of Class Compromise | 177 |
Conditions of Class Compromise | 182 |
Beyond Capitalism | 197 |
Class Conflict and the State | 200 |
Democratic Capitalism at the Crossroads | 205 |
The Keynesian Revolution as a Compromise | 207 |
Economic Alternatives | 211 |
Market Economics as a Political Project | 218 |
Exploitation Class Conflict and Socialism The Ethical Materialism of John Roemer | 223 |
Exploitation and Its Origins | 224 |
Exploitation and Class Struggle | 226 |
Exploitation Class Struggle and Accumulation | 231 |
Exploitation and the Transition to Socialism | 235 |
Social Democracy and Socialism | 239 |
References | 249 |
Name Index | 263 |
Subject Index | 267 |
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Page 52 - socialism originated, and it was they who communicated it to the more intellectually developed proletarians, who in their turn introduced it into the proletarian class struggle from without and not something that arose within it spontaneously.