{"product_id":"class-power-and-state-power-9780860917731","title":"Class Power and State Power","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRalph Miliband is one of the major Marxist sociologists working today. His books, \u003ci\u003eThe State in Capitalist Society\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eParliamentary Socialism\u003c\/i\u003e, are standard reference points in all debates on the nature of the state.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLess widely known, and never before collected in one volume, are Miliband's contributions to the development of socialist politics. As an essayist, he deploys a wide political culture and clarity of argument with a sustained commitment to socialist values. The topics of the essays gathered here were sparked by the key occasions of socialist debate in the past twenty years. They include socialist democracy; the relation between class power and state power in the transition to socialism; the role of human agency in history, and the character of the Soviet Union. Kolakowski, Bahro, Medvedev and Bettelheim are among the figures whose contributions are soberly and constructively assessed. The lessons of the overthrow of the Allende government in Chile ar","brand":"Verso Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49083733737815,"sku":"9780860917731","price":19.94,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/class-power-and-state-power-9780860917731","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}