The Communist Parties of Italy, France and Spain
The Communist Parties of Italy, France and Spain

Author: Peter Lange

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-06-29

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 1000413764

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First published in 1981, The Communist Parties of Italy, France, and Spain presents a comparative and integrative overview of the development of three Communist parties in the postwar Europe. Through the systematic presentation of the most important documents of the Communist parties, the book provides an access to the basic declarations and positions to illustrate the strategic and ideological evolution of these three parties in the advanced industrial democracies. Eurocommunism, the editors argue cannot be usefully understood as a phenomenon which suddenly appeared and equally as rapidly disappeared, in the 1970s. Rather it is a process of adaptation and change which characterizes the development of all three parties since World War II. The explicitly comparative organisation of the documents into five basic themes -general strategy, alliances, party organization, international policy, policy toward the communist movement, allows the reader both to follow any single party in a specific policy area or to compare the parties in response to major domestic or international events of significance. Rich in archival material, this book will be an invaluable resource to scholars and researchers of European Politics, comparative politics, comparative communism and modern European history. .

The End of the Democratic State
The End of the Democratic State

Author: Jean-Numa Ducange

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-08-06

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 3319908901

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This edited volume takes a close look at Nicos Poulantzas’s thought as a means of understanding the dynamics of the capitalist, neoliberal state in the 21st century. Nicos Poulantzas has left us with one of the most sophisticated theories of the state in the second half of the 20th century. Poulantzas’s influential theory draws inspiration from Marx, Lenin, Weber, and Foucault, among other thinkers, conceiving of the relationship between capitalism and the state as particularly original. This book aims to use Poulantzas’s theory of the capitalist state in order to understand important political and economic trends that have taken place since Poulantzas’s death in 1979. By entering into a dialogue with current Marxist and critical research in diverse fields such as political science, philosophy, sociology, history, and geography, this volume purports to evaluate the actuality of Poulantzas’s thought.

From Stalinism to Eurocommunism
From Stalinism to Eurocommunism

Author: Ernest Mandel

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2016-02-23

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1784787817

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Ernest Mandel’s book is a study of Eurocommunism unlike any other. Written in the polemical tradition of Trotsky, its sweep extends well beyond the immediate prospects of the Communist Parties of Western Europe. Mandel traces the long historical process which has transformed the once embattled detachments of the Third International into the constitutionalist formations of “historic compromise” and “union of the people” today. He then goes on to argue that the national roads to socialism of contemporary Eurocommunism are the “bitter fruits of socialism in one country” in the USSR. Mandel’s book contains trenchant and documented criticisms of the ideas of Santiago Carrillo in Spain, the economic policies of the PCI in Italy, and the PCF’s theories of the State in France. But it also sets these Western developments in the context of European politics as a whole—discussing the Russian response to Carrillo, the organizational attitudes of the CPSU to the Western parties, and the emergence of major dissident currents in Eastern Germany sympathetic to Eurocommunism. From Stalinism to Eurocommunism represents the first systematic and comprehensive critique from the Marxist Left of the new strategy of Western Communism. It can be read as a barometer of the storms ahead in the European labour movement.

Communism: A Very Short Introduction
Communism: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Leslie Holmes

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2009-08-27

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 0199551545

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The collapse of communism was one of the most defining moments of the twentieth century. This Very Short Introduction examines the history behind the political, economic, and social structures of communism as an ideology.

The Politics of Eurocommunism
The Politics of Eurocommunism

Author: Carl Boggs

Publisher:

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13:

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A collection of essays defining and analyzing the main features of Eurocommunism and assessing its long-term relevance for socialist polities--not only in Western Europe, but in the United States and elsewhere. Discusses the increasingly powerful role of the Communist parties in France, Italy and Spain, and the way that role has evolved in relation to changing domestic and international conditions. The geographical focus is dictated in part by the strength of the common traditions and problems in southern Europe.

Karl Kautsky
Karl Kautsky

Author: John Hans Kautsky

Publisher: Transaction Publishers

Published:

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9781412827102

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Politics
Politics

Author: J. R. Thackrah

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2013-10-22

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 1483103633

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Politics: Made Simple covers the historical ideas, modern political ideas and assumptions, political activities, and international issues that encompass the overall study of politics. The book describes the practicalities of political theories within capitalist and communist states, the theoretical analysis of international relations (anarchism, extremism and fascism); contemporary ideological panaceas; and ideas unique to the contemporary world. The text also discusses the theory of comparative and representative government. Students with degree courses in politics will find the book useful.

Eurocommunism
Eurocommunism

Author: Ioannis Balampanidis

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-11-09

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1351243675

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Eurocommunism constitutes a "moment" of great transformation connecting the past and the present of the European Left, a political project by means of which left-wing politics in Europe effected a definitive transition to a thoroughly different paradigm. It rose in the wake of 1968 – that pivotal year of social revolt and rethinking that caused a divide between radical, progressive and socialist thinking in western and southern Europe and the Soviet model. Communist parties in Italy, France, Spain and Greece changed tack, drew on the dynamics of social radicalism of the time and came to be associated with political moderation, liberal democracy and negotiation rather than contentious politics forging a movement that would hold influence until the early 1980s. Eurocommunism thus wove an original political synthesis delineated against both the revolutionary Left and the social democracy: "party of struggle and party of governance".