The Retreat from Class keyword-memory Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis

Geras explores the development of Luxemburg’s critique in the period following the war and demonstrates how her thought is distinct from the social democratic or anarchist theories into which it is often subsumed

In a readable and spirited argument

[and] demonstrated the power of the common people in a manner which no subsequent government has ever allowed itself to forget

The Retreat from Class keyword-memory PsychoanalysisIn this classic study, which won the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize, Ellen Wood provides a critical survey of influential trends in post Marxist theory. Challenging their dissociation of politics from class, she elaborates her own original conception of the complex relations between class, ideology and politics. In the process, Wood explores the links between socialism and democracy and reinterprets the relationship between liberal and socialist