Democratic Theory and Socialism
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- Author: Frank Cunningham
- Date Published: December 1987
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521335782
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This book is an important contribution to the theory of democracy and socialism. The underlying question it poses is: how, if at all, can one have both socialism and democracy? In posing an answer to this question, Professor Cunningham addresses the following topics: the definition of democracy and whether socialism is necessary to its progress: the socialist retrieval of liberal democracy associated with the work of C. B. Macpherson: the political consciousness that Gramsci placed at the center of socialist politics: and attempts by those in women's and national liberation movements to go beyond 'class reductionism' in socialist theory and practice. Unlike other works on this topic, the book devotes much attention to defining key terms and drawing politically relevant conclusions. It will therefore be fully accessible to undergraduates as well as graduates and teachers of philosophy and political science.
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- Date Published: December 1987
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521335782
- length: 380 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 21 mm
- weight: 0.56kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction:
1. What is to be asked?
2. Marxism and methodology
Part I. Justifying Democracy and Socialism:
3. Democracy: more or less
4. Justifying democracy
5. Capitalism, socialism and equality
6. Justifying socialism
Part II. The Retrieval of Liberal democracy:
7. Liberal democracy
8. Superseded liberal democracy
Part III. Practical Solutions to Theoretical Problems:
9. Class reductionism
10. False consciousness
Conclusion:
11. The politics of democratic socialism
Notes
Index.
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