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Wrong turnings : how the left got lost / Geoffrey M. Hodgson.

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Wrong turnings : how the left got lost / Geoffrey M. Hodgson.

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Wrong turnings : how the left got lost / Geoffrey M. Hodgson.

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Full title

Wrong turnings : how the left got lost / Geoffrey M. Hodgson.

Publisher

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.

Call Numbers

G 2018/2124

Record Identifier

74VKVopNLxxb

MMS ID

991024164895202626

Language

English

Formats

Physical Description

Physical content

xi, 283 pages ; 24 cm

Content type

text

Media type

unmediated

Carrier type

volume

Contents

Progressive radicalism before the left -- The French revolution and the original left -- Thomas Paine and the rights of man -- Socialism's wrong responses to the right problems -- Marxism's wrong turnings: class war and wholesale collectivization -- Down the slippery slope to totalitarianism -- Keep...

Publication information

Publisher

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.

Place of Publication

Illinois

Date Published

2018.

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Scope and Contents

Summary

The Left is in crisis. Despite global economic turbulence, left-wing political parties in many countries have failed to make progress in part because they have grown too ideologically fragmented. Today, the term Left is associated with state intervention and public ownership, but this has little in common with the original meaning of the term. What...

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Full title

Wrong turnings : how the left got lost / Geoffrey M. Hodgson.

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Notes

General note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-269) and index.

Contextual Information

Date Copyright

©2018

Identifiers

Primary Identifiers

Call Numbers

G 2018/2124

Record Identifier

74VKVopNLxxb

Permalink

https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVopNLxxb

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ISBN

9780226505749 (cloth ; alk. paper)

022650574X (cloth ; alk. paper)

9780226505886 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

022650588X (pbk. ; alk. paper)

DDC

320.53

MMS ID

991024164895202626

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