Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Socialism
- The Cambridge History of Socialism
- The Cambridge History of Socialism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors to Volume II
- Abbreviations
- Introduction to Volume II
- Part I Transforming State Power
- Social Democratic Routes in Europe
- Social Democratic Routes in Australia, the Americas, and Asia
- Worldwide Connections
- Southern Trajectories
- Left Socialisms
- 23 The London Bureau
- 24 European Left Socialist Parties since the 1950s
- 25 The New Left as a Global Current since the Late 1950s
- Part II Transversal Perspectives
- Index
- References
24 - European Left Socialist Parties since the 1950s
from Left Socialisms
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 November 2022
- The Cambridge History of Socialism
- The Cambridge History of Socialism
- The Cambridge History of Socialism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors to Volume II
- Abbreviations
- Introduction to Volume II
- Part I Transforming State Power
- Social Democratic Routes in Europe
- Social Democratic Routes in Australia, the Americas, and Asia
- Worldwide Connections
- Southern Trajectories
- Left Socialisms
- 23 The London Bureau
- 24 European Left Socialist Parties since the 1950s
- 25 The New Left as a Global Current since the Late 1950s
- Part II Transversal Perspectives
- Index
- References
Summary
Since the end of the First World War, when the international labour movement split into a social democratic and a communist part, socialist groups have existed refusing to join one of the two big wings. These politically ‘homeless’ may, somewhat schematically, be divided into those who described themselves as the saviours of the Bolshevik heritage and therefore considered themselves to be the true communists (Trotskyists, Maoists, etc.),1 and those who neither wanted to follow the Bolshevik example nor to imitate the social democratic parliamentary strategy. This second, variegated current comprises the ‘left socialists’. During the interwar years a part of these left socialists founded their own international partnership which became known as the London Bureau. It perished with the Second World War.2
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- The Cambridge History of Socialism , pp. 561 - 583Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022