What would socialism be like?
Geoffrey Hawthorn, 1 March 1984
In the Tracks of Historical Materialism
by Perry Anderson.
Verso, 112 pp., £4.95, November 1983,0 86091 776 2 Show More
by Perry Anderson.
Verso, 112 pp., £4.95, November 1983,
The Dialectics of Disaster
by Ronald Aronson.
Verso, 329 pp., £5.95, February 1984,9780860910756 Show More
by Ronald Aronson.
Verso, 329 pp., £5.95, February 1984,
Rethinking Socialism
by Gavin Kitching.
Methuen, 178 pp., £3.95, October 1983,0 416 35840 3 Show More
by Gavin Kitching.
Methuen, 178 pp., £3.95, October 1983,
The Economics of Feasible Socialism
by Alec Nove.
Allen and Unwin, 244 pp., £12.95, February 1983,0 04 335048 8 Show More
by Alec Nove.
Allen and Unwin, 244 pp., £12.95, February 1983,
The Labour Party in Crisis
by Paul Whiteley.
Methuen, 253 pp., £12.50, November 1983,0 416 33860 7 Show More
by Paul Whiteley.
Methuen, 253 pp., £12.50, November 1983,
“... hopes remain. Rousseau, Schumpeter and the dead weight of democratic theory notwithstanding, Kitching refuses to accept that socialism is anything less than the realisation of the Ancient and Early Modern ideal of civic virtue. Socialism must consist in bringing the citizens to virtue, to Aristotle’s arete, the Romans’ manly virtus, Machiavelli’s ... ”
