The Crisis in German Social-democracy
Title | The Crisis in German Social-democracy PDF eBook |
Author | Karl Liebknecht |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 144 |
Release | 1918 |
Genre | Socialism |
ISBN |
German Social Democracy and the Rise of Nazism
Title | German Social Democracy and the Rise of Nazism PDF eBook |
Author | Donna Harsch |
Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | 413 |
Release | 2000-11-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0807861928 |
German Social Democracy and the Rise of Nazism explores the failure of Germany's largest political party to stave off the Nazi threat to the Weimar republic. In 1928 members of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) were elected to the chancellorship and thousands of state and municipal offices. But despite the party's apparent strengths, in 1933 Social Democracy succumbed to Nazi power without a fight. Previous scholarship has blamed this reversal of fortune on bureaucratic paralysis, but in this revisionist evaluation, Donna Harsch argues that the party's internal dynamics immobilized the SPD. Harsch looks closely at Social Democratic ideology, structure, and political culture, examining how each impinged upon the party's response to economic disaster, parliamentary crisis, and the Nazis. She considers political and organizational interplay within the SPD as well as interaction between the party, the Socialist trade unions, and the republican defense league. Conceding that lethargy and conservatism hampered the SPD, Harsch focuses on strikingly inventive ideas put forward by various Social Democrats to address the republic's crisis. She shows how the unresolved competition among these proposals blocked innovations that might have thwarted Nazism. Originally published in 1993. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
The crisis in the German social-democracy
Title | The crisis in the German social-democracy PDF eBook |
Author | Rosa Luxemburg |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 128 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Crisis in German Social Democracy
Title | The Crisis in German Social Democracy PDF eBook |
Author | Karl Liebknecht |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 1918 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780865270374 |
The Crisis in the German Social-Democracy (The Junius Pamphlet)
Title | The Crisis in the German Social-Democracy (The Junius Pamphlet) PDF eBook |
Author | Rosa Luxemburg |
Publisher | Sagwan Press |
Total Pages | 136 |
Release | 2015-08-26 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781340402389 |
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The Crisis in the German Social-Democracy. The "Junius" Pamphlet. [With a Portrait.].
Title | The Crisis in the German Social-Democracy. The "Junius" Pamphlet. [With a Portrait.]. PDF eBook |
Author | Rosa Luxemburg |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 128 |
Release | 1919 |
Genre | Socialism |
ISBN |
In search of social democracy
Title | In search of social democracy PDF eBook |
Author | John Callaghan |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | 318 |
Release | 2017-05-26 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1526125099 |
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. The search for social democracy has not been an easy one over the last three decades. The economic crisis of the 1970s, and the consequent rise of neo-liberalism, confronted social democrats with difficult new circumstances: tax-resistant electorates, the globalisation of capital and Western deindustrialisation. In response, a new bout of ideological revisionism consumed social democratic parties. But did this revisionism simply amount to a neo-liberalisation of the Left or did it propose a recognisably social democratic agenda? Were these ideological adaptations the only feasible ones or were there other forms of modernisation that might have yielded greater strategic dividends for the Left? Why did some social democratic parties feel it necessary to take their revisionism much further than others? In search of social democracy brings together prominent scholars of social democracy to address these questions. Focusing on the social democratic heartland of Western Europe (although Australia and the United States also figure in the analysis), it gives the first detailed assessment of how the new social democratic revisionism has fared in government. The book begins by considering the underlying causes of the end of social democracy’s golden age and the magnitude of the challenges faced by social democratic parties after the 1970s. It then proceeds to examine detailed case studies of how particular social democratic parties responded to this changed political terrain. Finally, it contributes to a broader conversation about the future of social democracy by considering ways in which the political thought of ‘third way’ social democracy might be radicalised for the twenty-first century. The contributors offer a variety of perspectives – some are sceptical of social democracy’s prospects, others more sanguine; some supportive of the performance of social democratic parties in government, others bitingly critical. But they are united by the conviction that the themes addressed in this book are crucial to understanding the current politics of the industrialised world and, in particular, to determining the feasibility of more egalitarian and democratic social outcomes than have been possible so far in the era of neo-liberalism.