Class War Conservatism - And Other Essays

"First published as Class Power and State Power: Political Essays"--T.p. verso.

About the author

Ralph Miliband

Summary

Essential writings from a leading British Socialist thinker

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"A veritable giant of a man who had an almost unique capacity to understand - and explain - the world in which we live."
-Tony Benn

"An inspiring teacher of politics and an internationally renowned figure on the British Left."
-Daily Telegraph

"A Miliband speech was always a treat; alternately sarcastic and scholarly, witty and vicious."
-Tariq Ali

"A beacon on the international Left. He epitomized what it meant to be a creative and independent socialist intellectual, and he provided consistent leadership in defining the issues for critical engagement."
-Leo Panitch

"[Miliband's] perspective-simultaneously hopeful and clear-eyed, fiercely principled but tethered to reality-made the British socialist the most impressive Marxist of his generation."
-In These Times

"His whole effort is to render the language of socialism in terms of the needs of the here and now."
-Raphael Samuel

Product details

• Authors: Tariq Ali, Ralph Miliband, Miliband Ralph
• Assisted by: Tariq Ali (Introduction)
• Publisher: Random House USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.02.2015
• EAN: 9781781687703
• ISBN: 978-1-78168-770-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies