Hodgson, Geoffrey Martin, 1946-

Wrong turnings : how the left got lost / english Geoffrey M. Hodgson. - xi, 283 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 -- Keeping left: in defence of democracy and individual rights -- After Vietnam: the left descends into cultural relativism -- Final full turn: the left condones reactionary religion -- Two open letters to friends -- Capitalism and beyond: toward a new old left.

9780226505749 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780226505886 (pbk : alk. paper)

2017029424


Right and left (Political science)--History.
Liberalism.
Democracy.
Socialism.

JA83 / .H625 2018

320.53 H661W