Overview: Asserts that the left must be understood in a new discourse to remain relevant to contemporary life, while disentangling it from contemporary social movements to retain its historical consciousness.AvThis book investigates notions of the individual, society, the state, economic relations and historical change that exist in the political left by drawing on contemporary philosophical, political and social thought. Using a discourse perspective, this work brings together the many fractious strains in the left, including social democracy, anarchism, communism and market socialism, and di
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