True Mission: Socialists and the Labor Party Question in the U.S. - Softcover

Chester, Eric Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 074532214X ISBN 13: 9780745322148

Verlag: Pluto Press, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

In the election campaign of 2000, Al Gore and Ralph Nader polled many millions more votes than George W. Bush. Yet the US Left lost out, a casualty of the two-party system. This is a pattern which has been repeated many times over the years. The most contentious issues dividing the Left in the United States have been those related to the Democratic Party. This book explores the crucial moments in US history where the stranglehold of the two-party system was nearly broken. Presenting a detailed history of Labor party politics, beginning with Henry George's campaign for mayor of New York City in 1886, proceeding to Robert La Follette's independent presidential campaign of 1924, and the Socialist party's relationship to New York's American Labor Party in the early twentieth century, Eric Chester explores the history of Left in America up to and including the Nader campaign of 2000. Chester identifies key reasons why burgeoning political movements have failed. He examines the part played by trade union-based political parties. He also looks at the inabililty of populist middle-class parties to establish ideological or organisational groundings for a viable third party. Looking to the future, Chester proposes an alternative: drawing on the success of the Socialist Party at the turn of the last century, he lays out ideas for a mass-based socialist party as the only way forward towards genuinely independent politics.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Eric Thomas Chester was Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts in Boston. In the 1960s, he was active in the civil rights movement, the movement to oppose the war in Vietnam and Students for a Democratic Society. He was the vice-presidential candidate of the Socialist Party in 1996. He remains an active member of the Party and of the Industrial Workers of the World.

Sinisa Malesevic is lecturer in the Department of Political Science and Sociology, NUI, Galway. He is author of Ideology, Legitimacy and the New State (Frank Cass, 2002), editor of Culture in Central and Eastern Europe: Institutional and Value Changes (IMO, 1997) and co-editor of Ideology after Poststructuralism (Pluto 2002)._x000B_Iain MacKenzie is a Lecturer in Politics at The Queen's University of Belfast. He is author of articles on Deleuze and Guattari and co-author of Contemporary Social and Political Theory: An Introduction (OUP, 1999).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Pluto Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 074532214X
• ISBN 13: 9780745322148
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272
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