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Citizens and Saints: Politics and Anti-Politics in Early British Socialism

Citizens and Saints: Politics and Anti-Politics in Early British Socialism

Claeys, Gregory

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General Political ScienceSocial Movements

ISBN10: 0521892767
ISBN13: 9780521892766
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: May 2 2002
Pages: 380
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.95 Width: 6.12 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Citizens and Saints is a comprehensive study of the profound rupture in the language of reform and revolution which occurred with the rise of socialism. Focusing upon British Owenite socialism, Professor Claeys argues that two schools of political thinking emerged from the 'social' critique of contemporary political radicalism. One, largely identified with Owenite perfectibilism, aimed to transcend existing forms of democracy and to establish more harmonious, less divisive forms of rule. The other, apparently more democratic, aimed to extend popular control of political institutions to economic organisations. Both were sceptical of the 'political' analyses of socioeconomic deprivation proferred by existing radicalism. Such scepticism was to prove crucial to both liberal and socialist political thought, and Professor Claeys shows that such perennial questions as the intrinsically democratic (or otherwise) nature of Marxist socialism can only be understood by reference to the political and intellectual circumstances in which early socialist ideas emerged.

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