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Anti Totalitarianism: The Left Wing Case For A Neoconservative Foreign Policy

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Throughout the past century the Left has fractured over the issue of national security. In Anti-Totalitarianism: The Left-Wing Case for a Neoconservative Foreign Policy, Oliver Kamm plots a course for progressive politics by drawing on four pivotal historical debates on the British Left. These episodes comprise: collective security in the 1930s; opposition to Communist expansionism after World War II; the Labour Party's rejection in the 1980s of its earlier anti-Communism; and President Bush's 'war on terror'. Kamm identifies, running through these debates, an authentic left-wing tradition of militant anti-totalitarianism. Against it, however, there has been a recurring temptation for progressives, critical of their own societies' failings, to extenuate or even romanticise the ideological opponents of Western liberal democracies.

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Social Affairs Unit

Release: February 22, 2006

ISBN: 190486306X

ISBN 13: 9781904863069

Anti Totalitarianism: The Left Wing Case For A Neoconservative Foreign Policy

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Throughout the past century the Left has fractured over the issue of national security. In Anti-Totalitarianism: The Left-Wing Case for a Neoconservative Foreign Policy, Oliver Kamm plots a course for progressive politics by drawing on four pivotal historical debates on the British Left. These episodes comprise: collective security in the 1930s; opposition to Communist expansionism after World War II; the Labour Party's rejection in the 1980s of its earlier anti-Communism; and President Bush's 'war on terror'. Kamm identifies, running through these debates, an authentic left-wing tradition of militant anti-totalitarianism. Against it, however, there has been a recurring temptation for progressives, critical of their own societies' failings, to extenuate or even romanticise the ideological opponents of Western liberal democracies.

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Social Affairs Unit

Release: February 22, 2006

ISBN: 190486306X

ISBN 13: 9781904863069

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