The Cambridge History of Socialism

This volume explores the movements and thinkers who sought social change without state intervention, covering cases in Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia. It discusses early egalitarian experiments and ideologies, early socialist thinkers, the rise of anarchism and Marxism, organizational forms, and the revival of anarchism and syndicalism.

Format: Hardback
Length: 685 pages
Publication date: 24 November 2022
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

This comprehensive volume explores the diverse movements and thinkers who sought social change without relying on state intervention. Spanning Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia, it delves into various cases and ideologies. The first part examines early egalitarian experiments and ideologies in Asia, Europe, and the Islamic world, followed by the emergence of early socialist thinkers in Britain, France, and Germany. The second part delves into the rise of two primary currents within socialist movements after 1848: anarchism, with its diverse manifestations, and Marxism. It also explores organizational forms, such as the International Working Men's Association (later known as the First International), and traces the development of anarchism and its proletarian sibling, revolutionary syndicalism, from the 1870s to the 1940s across different continents. The volume concludes with critical essays on anarchist transnationalism and the recent resurgence of anarchism and syndicalism in various parts of the world.

ISBN-13: 9781108481342