This volume describes the various movements and parties, across all six continents, that wanted social change through state transformation. It begins with a reconstruction of social democracy's trajectories from the 1870s until the present. The evolution of socialism on different continents is illustrated through a number of national case studies. Experiments at a subnational level (for example, municipal socialism) are also explored, as are the varying experiences of international umbrella organizations. The next part focuses on divergent socialist experiments and ideologies in several parts of the world, including South Asia, Africa, the Arab world, Brazil, Venezuela, and Israel/Palestine, followed by an overview of 'independent' socialist movements, including left-socialist parties of the 1930s and the post-war period, and the global New Left since its beginnings in the 1950s. The volume concludes with critical essays on socialism's long-term and global development.
Introduction to Volume II Marcel van der Linden; Part I. Transforming State-Power; Section 1. Social Democratic Routes in Europe: 1. Social Democracy in Germany Stefan Berger and Thomas Welskopp; 2. Social Democracy in Austria Helmut Konrad; 3. Social Democracy in Sweden Jenny Andersson; 4. The British Labour Party John Callaghan; 5. Social Democracy in Georgia Ronald Grigor Suny; 6. The General Jewish Workers' Bund Jack Jacobs; Section 2. Social Democratic Routes in Australia, the Americas and Asia: 7. The Australian Labor Party Frank Bongiorno and Sean Scalmers; 8. Social Democracy in Argentina Lucas Poy; 9. The Partido dos Trabalhadores in Brazil Marcelo Badaró Mattos; 10. Still small voice: the persistence of the social-democratic idea in United States history Leon Fink; 11. Social Democracy in Japan Alexander Brown; Section 3. Worldwide Connections: 12. The Second International (1889–1914) Jean-Numa Ducange; 13. The Second International Reconstituted: the Labour and Socialist International (1923–1940) Reiner Tosstorff; 14. The rise and fall of the Asian Socialist Conference (1952–56) Su Lin Lewis; 15. The Socialist International (1951–) and the Progressive Alliance (2013–) Talbot Imlay; 16. Municipal socialism Shelton Stromquist; Section 4. Southern Trajectories: 17. Socialism, Zionism, and settler colonialism in Israel/Palestine Joel Beinin; 18. Socialism in India Madhavan K. Palat; 19. The Lanka Sama Samaja Party Jayadeva Uyangoda; 20. African Socialism Emma Hunter; 21. Arab Socialism Abdel Razzaq Takriti and Hicham Safieddine; 22. Chavismo: revolutionary Bolivarianism in Venezuela Dario Azzellini; Section 5. Left Socialisms: 23. The London Bureau Willy Buschak; 24. European left-socialist parties since the 1950s Knut Kjeldstadli; 25. The New Left as a global current since the late 1950s Gerd-Rainer Horn; Part II. Transversal Perspectives: 26. Socialism and colonialism Reinhart Kössler; 27. Socialism, gender and the emancipation of women Susan Zimmermann; 28. Socialism and ecology Ted Benton; 29. Crises and futures of social democracy Göran Therborn.
Marcel van der Linden is Senior Fellow at the International Institute of Social History and emeritus professor of Social Movement History at the University of Amsterdam. He was elected President of the International Social History Association three times, and has (co)authored and (co)edited over fifty books on socialist and labour history.
