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| Parliamentary SocialismA Study in the Politics of Labour
Miliband, RalphPublisher:  George Allen & Unwin, United Kingdom Year Published:  1961
 Pages:  356pp
 Library of Congress Number:  JN1129 L32M5
 Resource Type:  Book
 
 The leadership of the British Labour Party has always been determined that the Labour Party should not stray from the narrow path of parliamentary politics. Miliband sets out the analyse the consequences which this approach to politics has had for the Labour Party and the Labour movement from the time the Labour Party came into existence.
 
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 Table of Contents
 
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
 
 Introduction
 I. LABOUR IN PARLIAMENT
 1.The Liberal Connection
 2.The Labour Left
 3.The Challenge of Militancy
 
 II.LABOUR IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR
 1.The Great Illusion
 2.Junior Partnership
 3.The Resurgence of Militancy
 
 III.PARLIAMENTARISM VERSUS DIRECT ACTION
 1.Labour and the Old Social Order
 2.The Fear of Action
 3.Labour's Fling
 4.Labour and Communism
 
 IV.FROM OPPOSITION TO OFFICE
 1.The Parliamentary Embrace
 2.Office and Its Purpose
 3.No Gratitude at the Top
 
 V.THE GENERAL STRIKE
 1.Red Friday- And After
 2. The Fear of Success
 3.The Consequences of Defeat
 
 VI. THE PRICE OF RESPECTIBILITY
 1.`Tentative, Doctrineless Socialism'
 2.In Pursuit of the National Interest
 3.The Logic of Endurance
 4.After MacDonald
 
 VII. MACDONALDISM WITHOUT MACDONALD
 1.The Lure of Words
 2.Labour and the Unemployed
 3.Labour and fascism
 
 VIII. THE CHALLENGE OF APPEASEMENT
 1.Parliamentary Opposition
 2.The Wasted Years
 3.Waiting for War
 4.War
 
 IX. THE CLIMAX OF LABOURISM
 1.The Impact of War
 2.Labour's Socialism
 3.`Consolidation'
 4.From Consolidation to Defeat
 
 X.THE SICKNESS OF LABOURISM
 1. From Defeat to Paralysis
 2.Paralysis as Ideology
 3.The Battle for the Labour Party
 
 INDEX
 
 
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