Parliamentary Socialism
A Study in the Politics of Labour
Miliband, Ralph
Publisher: George Allen & Unwin, United Kingdom
Year Published: 1961
Pages: 356pp Library of Congress Number: JN1129 L32M5Resource Type: Book
Cx Number: CX6479
The leadership of the British Labour Party has always been determined that the Labour Party should not stray from the narrow path of parliamentary politics. Miliband sets out the analyse the consequences which this approach to politics has had for the Labour Party and the Labour movement from the time the Labour Party came into existence.
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Table of Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Introduction
I. LABOUR IN PARLIAMENT
1.The Liberal Connection
2.The Labour Left
3.The Challenge of Militancy
II.LABOUR IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR
1.The Great Illusion
2.Junior Partnership
3.The Resurgence of Militancy
III.PARLIAMENTARISM VERSUS DIRECT ACTION
1.Labour and the Old Social Order
2.The Fear of Action
3.Labour's Fling
4.Labour and Communism
IV.FROM OPPOSITION TO OFFICE
1.The Parliamentary Embrace
2.Office and Its Purpose
3.No Gratitude at the Top
V.THE GENERAL STRIKE
1.Red Friday- And After
2. The Fear of Success
3.The Consequences of Defeat
VI. THE PRICE OF RESPECTIBILITY
1.`Tentative, Doctrineless Socialism'
2.In Pursuit of the National Interest
3.The Logic of Endurance
4.After MacDonald
VII. MACDONALDISM WITHOUT MACDONALD
1.The Lure of Words
2.Labour and the Unemployed
3.Labour and fascism
VIII. THE CHALLENGE OF APPEASEMENT
1.Parliamentary Opposition
2.The Wasted Years
3.Waiting for War
4.War
IX. THE CLIMAX OF LABOURISM
1.The Impact of War
2.Labour's Socialism
3.`Consolidation'
4.From Consolidation to Defeat
X.THE SICKNESS OF LABOURISM
1. From Defeat to Paralysis
2.Paralysis as Ideology
3.The Battle for the Labour Party
INDEX
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