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Overview
The three authors are unidentified but presumably British because of the focus of their analysis and because such notions would not be considered publishable in the US. They argue that classical Marxism can provide an analysis of social welfare that is nuanced and attuned to the contradictions of welfare in capitalist society, and that is committed both to the expansion of state welfare in the present and the abolition of capitalism and its exploitative social relations in the future. They admit that a decade ago, such ideas would have been rejected as fanciful, but point out that they look more promising in the wake Thatcherism than in the wake of the Berlin Wall. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, ORSynopsis
The three authors are unidentified but presumably British because of the focus of their analysis and because such notions would not be considered publishable in the US. They argue that classical Marxism can provide an analysis of social welfare that is nuanced and attuned to the contradictions of welfare in capitalist society, and that is committed both to the expansion of state welfare in the present and the abolition of capitalism and its exploitative social relations in the future. They admit that a decade ago, such ideas would have been rejected as fanciful, but point out that they look more promising in the wake Thatcherism than in the wake of the Berlin Wall. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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The three authors are unidentified but presumably British because of the focus of their analysis and because such notions would not be considered publishable in the US. They argue that classical Marxism can provide an analysis of social welfare that is nuanced and attuned to the contradictions of welfare in capitalist society, and that is committed both to the expansion of state welfare in the present and the abolition of capitalism and its exploitative social relations in the future. They admit that a decade ago, such ideas would have been rejected as fanciful, but point out that they look more promising in the wake Thatcherism than in the wake of the Berlin Wall. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)