Beschreibung:
A detailed account of the revisionist thought in the Labour Party from the 1950s up to Blair. Jones focuses on attitudes to public ownership, and draws on interviews with key players, such as Wilson, Jenkins, and Kinnock.
Chapter 1 Labour, public ownership and socialist myth; Chapter 2 The emergence and refinement of Labour revisionism, 1951-9; Chapter 3 The climax of revisionism; Chapter 4 Revisionism diluted, 1960-70; Chapter 5 Revisionist social democracy in retreat, 1970-83; Chapter 6 Revisionism reborn? 1983-92; Chapter 7 The triumph of revisionism?; Chapter 8 Conclusion;