Book review: searching for socialism: the project of the Labour new left from Benn to Corbyn by Leo Panitch and Colin Leys

Lane, David (2020) Book review: searching for socialism: the project of the Labour new left from Benn to Corbyn by Leo Panitch and Colin Leys. LSE Review of Books (02 Jul 2020). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

In Searching for Socialism, Leo Panitch and Colin Leys bring out the continuities in the policies and aspirations of Tony Benn and Jeremy Corbyn in seeking to transform the British Labour Party into an instrument of socialist change. While urging for greater efforts towards instilling socialist values and objectives within the Labour Party, the authors conclude that without a compelling socialist ideology capable of overcoming the contradictions of 21st-century capitalism, we remain searching for socialism, writes David Lane.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/
Additional Information:	© 2020 The Author
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain H Social Sciences > HX Socialism. Communism. Anarchism
Date Deposited:	26 Aug 2020 11:24
Last Modified:	15 Sep 2023 10:40
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/106018

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