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"First published as Class Power and State Power: Political Essays"--T.p. verso.
About the author
Born in Belgium in 1924, Ralph Miliband moved to Britain in 1940. Serving in the Royal Navy during the war, he then studied at the LSE and became a leading member of the New Left. He set up the Socialist Register in 1964 while he continued to teach in London, Leeds and the US. He is the author of defining works such as Capitalist Democracy in Britain and Socialism for a Sceptical Age. He died in 1994.Tariq Ali is a writer and filmmaker. He has written more than a dozen books on world history and politics-including Pirates of the Caribbean, Bush in Babylon, The Clash of Fundamentalisms and The Obama Syndrome-as well as five novels in his Islam Quintet series and scripts for the stage and screen. He is an editor of the New Left Review and lives in London.
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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
