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Begins with a description of Western socialism, or social democracy, identifying three key features, or ambitions. This "participatory" socialism, marked by democracy, regulation, & welfare, is deemed conventional, but a "natural" & adverse tendency toward authoritarianism & hierarchy is also seen to operate. Attention is given to "socialism-in-the-making's" political/moral character & social location in the contested spaces of civil society. D. Edelman

RECENT HISTORY HAS NOT BEEN KIND TO THE IDEAS OF SOCIALISM AND TRADITION. THE COLLAPSE OF COMMUNISM IN EASTERN EUROPE AND THE FORMER SOVIET UNION--"THE ONLY EXISTING SOCIALISM" ACCORDING TO SOME FRIENDS AND FOES ALIKE--SEEMS TO MAKE SOCIALISM AN OBVIOUS CANDIDATE FOR THE DUSTBIN OF HISTORY. IT IS WITHIN THIS HISTORICAL MOMENT THAT PEOPLE ON THE LEFT, WHO IN THE PAST HAVE DEFINED THEMSELVES UNHESITATINGLY AS SOCIALISTS AND AS PART OF A SOCIALIST TRADITION, FACE THE QUESTION OF WHETHER THEY ARE MISGUIDED IN CLINGING TO THAT IDENTITY AND TRADITION.