(Ebook) Back to the Future of Socialism 1st Edition by Peter Hain ISBN 1447321669 9781447321668

(Ebook) Back to the Future of Socialism 1st Edition by Peter Hain ISBN 1447321669 9781447321668

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ISBN 10: 1447321669 
ISBN 13: 9781447321668
Author: Peter Hain

What's gone wrong with capitalism and how should governments respond? What does the future hold for the Left in the UK in the face of the austerity straitjacket around our politics and media? Anthony Crosland’s The Future of Socialism (1956) provided a creed for governments of the centre left until the global banking crisis. Now Peter Hain presents an evidence-based case for a radical alternative to the neo-liberal economic agenda. A substantial new Afterword outlines what the Labour Party needs to do following the 2015 UK General Election to win again by returning to its core values of decency, social justice, equality and prosperity for all. A rousing alternative to the neoliberal, right-wing orthodoxy of our era, Hain’s book is now even more essential reading for everyone interested in the future of the left.

(Ebook) Back to the Future of Socialism 1st Table of contents:

1. The Crosland agenda
The Crosland thesis
2. New Labour, Crosland and the crisis
Then came the crisis
Labour’s response
Labour’s economic record 1997–2010
How New Labour measured up
Summary
3. Finance and the new capitalism
The financial elite
A new era
How finance capitalism changed
The rise of risk
Pass the parcel
Governments to the rescue
The costs of recession
The new capitalism
To the brink
4. Growth not cuts
The consequences of austerity
Debt, deficits and growth
Borrowing and spending
Spare capacity for growth
Alternative to austerity
5. Growth by active government
A financial not a spending crisis
Social cohesion depends upon active government
Why growth depends on government
Technological innovation
The government factor
Social infrastructure and public investment
Challenging old ideas
Financial reform
Ensuring banking backs growth
National Economic Development Council
New Labour non-interventionism
Market failure
Government’s key role
Entrepreneurial government
Active industrial policy
6. Fraternity, cooperation, trade unionism
Cooperation spurned
British trade unionism at the crossroads
Union priorities
A shrinking rank and file base
Recognition by employers
Working together for results
New framework for cooperation
7. But what sort of socialist state?
Neoliberalism, democratic legitimacy and society
British socialist roots
Retreat from libertarian socialism
Guild socialism
Centralised collectivism
Impact upon Labour
A participatory democracy
Devolution or separatism?
A more ‘federal’ UK?
The failure of ‘popular capitalism’
‘Free’ schools
Participatory socialism
Markets
Regulation and ownership
Conclusion
8. A new internationalism
Food and water shortages
International problems, international solutions
Globalisation and interdependency
Stronger international institutions in a multipolar world
Europe
Social justice and global stability
Women: a global injustice
Human rights, liberty and democracy
Climate change
Renewable energy in Africa
9. Britain in Europe
Europe’s place in the world
Europe’s evolution
Growth not austerity
Britain in Europe
The withdrawal fallacy
Trade
Foreign direct investment
British Europeans
Practical Europeanism
European reform
Sometimes less, sometimes more Europe
10. Refounding Labour
Recent trends in Britain
Changing political culture
Multiparty government
Councillors and communities
Supporters not joiners
Labour’s challenge
Affiliated trade union members
Importance of local campaigning
Community organising
Party organisation
New media and new technology
Less a party, more a movement
11. Faster, sustainable growth
Austerity or bust?
The prospects for public spending: aspiration and anxiety
The room for expansion
Output gap
Two-year public investment plan for faster sustainable growth
Housing
Infrastructure
Low-carbon/green growth
The Severn Barrage
Action on skills
12. A fairer, more equal society
Taxation
Seven-point programme of tax reform
Financing students and universities
Welfare reform
Ageing society
Universal, affordable childcare
13. A future for Labour
A future for socialism
Growth again
Greater equality our mission
Overview
Bold ambitions
Notes
Index

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