Michael Newman. Ralph Miliband and the Politics of the New Left.

Contents

Foreword

Introduction

I – Socialism and Identity

1 – Growing up in Brussels and London, 1924-41

2 – Cambridge and LSE, 1941-43

3 – The Navy, 1943-46

II – Apprenticeship (1946-56)

1 – Reuniting the Family

2 – Academic Life

3 – On the Labour Left

4 – Writings

5 – The Legacy of Laski

III – The New Left and Parliamentary Socialism (1956-62)

1 – New Relationships

2 – Parliamentary Socialism

3 – The Politics behind Parliamentary Socialism

4 – A New Left Theorist?

IV – The Sixties (1962-69)

1 – The Break with the Labour Party

2 – From New Left Review to The Socialist Register

3 – The Crises of the 1960s

V – Free Speech and Academic Freedom

VI – The State in Capitalist Society and the Debate with Poulantzas

1 – The State in Capitalist Society

2 – The Miliband-Poulantzas Debate

VII – Marxism and Politics (1970-77)

1 – Political Thought

2 – Political Practice: The Centres for Marxist Education and the Idea of a New Socialist Party

VIII – An Uphill Struggle (1977-91)

1 – A Year in Boston and its Consequences

2 – Politics and the United States

3 – Analyzing “Thatcherism’

4 – ‘Bennism’ and the Socialist Society

5 – Confronting the ‘New Revisionism’

6 – Soviet-type Regimes and the Gorbachev Reforms

7 – The Independent Left Corresponding Society and the Chesterfield Conferences

8 – The Collapse of Communism

IX – In Pursuit of Socialism

Conclusion: Ralph Miliband Today

Notes on Sources & Bibliography