Anti-leftist politics in modern world history : avoiding 'socialism' at all costs /

Anti-leftist politics in modern world history : avoiding 'socialism' at all costs /

Systemic and political hostility against the 'left', real and contrived, has been a key, yet under-recognized aspect of the history of the modern world for the past two hundred years. By the 1820s, the new, exploitative and destabilizing character of capitalist industrial production and it...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Minehan, Philip B. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, [2022].
Subjects:
History, Modern > 20th century.
History, Modern > 19th century.
Right and left (Political science) > History.
Socialism > History.
Liberalism > History.
Imperialism > History.
Communism > History.
Fascism > History.
Neoliberalism > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction and historical background
  • Part I: The failed solutions: imperialism, the Great War, fascism, anti-bolshevism, and World War Two
  • Part II: The US-led global anti-communist solution
  • Part III: The neoliberal solution
  • Summary and conclusion
  • Epilogue: the pathology, the pandemic and the prospects.