Wrong turnings : how the left got lost - Hodgson, Geoffrey Martin, 1946- (Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2018)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Right and left (Political science) -- History; Liberalism; Democracy; Socialism