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Media and Left; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; List of Tables and Figures; List of Contributors; Introduction; 1 The Spectre of Marx; 2 Culture, Communication, & Ideology = Forms of Work; 3 Media Power and Class Power: Overplaying Ideology; 4 The Cultural Apparatus of Monopoly Capital: An Introduction; 5 The War Against Democracy in the UK; 6 Infamy and Indoctrination in American Media and Politics; 7 U.S. Media and the World; 8 The Evolving Business Models of Network News?; 9 Corporate Social (Ir)Responsibility in Media and Communication Industries

The demand for equality has been at the heart of the politics of the Left in the twentieth century, but what did theorists and politicians on the British Left mean when they said they were committed to?equality?? How did they argue for a more egalitarian society? Which policies did they think could best advance their egalitarian ideals? Equality and the British Left provides the first comprehensive answers to these questions. It charts debates about equality from the progressive liberalism and socialism of the early twentieth century to the arrival of the New Left and revisionist social democracy in the 1950s

Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- The need for a new foundation -- What is essential to the left? -- 1 Politics and Darwinism -- The right-wing takeover -- Facts and values -- How the left got Darwin wrong -- The dream of perfectibility -- Old tunes keep coming back -- 2 Can the Left Accept a Darwinian View of Human Nature? -- Unpopular ideas -- What is fixed and what is variable in human nature? -- How can reformers leam from Darwin? -- 3 Competition or Cooperation? -- Building a more cooperative society -- The prisoner's dilemma -- Learning from Tit for Tat -- 4 From Cooperation to Altruism? -- The puzzle of the evolution of altruism -- Status for what? -- 5 A Darwinian Left for Today and Beyond -- Notes and References.

Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Images; List of Contributors; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: What Does Democracy Look Like?; PART I: Mapping the Political Turn; 2 Composition's Left and the Struggle for Revolutionary Consciousness; 3 "Organize as If It Were Possible to Create a Movement That Will Change the World": An Interview with Angela Davis; 4 Marxist Ethics for Uncertain Times; 5 A Pedagogy for the Political Turn; PART II: Variations on the Political Turn

Why do we use the terms "left" and "right" to characterize political matters? Left and right in themselves have no political significance. Apparently there is something inside us that connects these bodily terms to politics. This book is the first to discover that "something".Political use of the terms "left" and "right" originated in the French Estates General on the 7th of May 1789, two days after its grandiose opening session, in a simple ad hoc measure for a short event that afternoon. However, this measure embodied the unforeseen emergence of the political left/right dichotomy. Its continual developments are discussed here, with examples not only from politics, but also from everyday life, anthropology, genetic engineering, a novel by Turgenev, ingenious experiments with volunteers, and much more. But above all, the dichotomy is enshrined in unconscious urges deep within us--as illustrated 2,400 years ago by Sophocles in his tragedy Antigone.

Cover -- Introduction -- Living in a Populist Era -- Surveying the Phenomenon: Precursors and Regional Variation -- Origins -- Nativism and Rural Populism: The United States and Elsewhere -- Presidentialism and Social Mobilisation: Latin American Populism -- The Western European Populist Right: From Protest Politics to Migration and Identity -- Identity Politics in Post-transition Societies: Populism in Central and Eastern Europe -- Protest Movements and Mediterranean Populism -- Variation in the Manifestation and Perception of Populism -- Populism as a Theoretical Problem: Towards a New Conceptualisation? -- Populism as an Empirical Phenomenon -- Empirical Challenges and New Research Agendas -- Populism and the Communication Dimension -- Final Note -- References -- PART I: Defining and Analysing the Concept -- CHAPTER 1: POPULISM: A HISTORY OF THE CONCEPT -- Conjuncture and Controversy in Politics and Science -- Lexical History of the Concept -- The Founding Forms of Populism -- Transnational and Transdisciplinary Expansion -- Populism as a Strategy or Ideology? -- Conclusions -- References -- CHAPTER 2: POPULISM AND POLITICAL REPRESENTATION -- Populist Parties, Representation and the Crisis of Representation -- Representing the People: Which People? -- Representing the Populist Parties -- References -- CHAPTER 3: CONCEPTUALISING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN POPULISM AND THE RADICAL RIGHT -- Introduction -- Populism and the Radical Right: A Historical Perspective -- From the Extreme Right to the Contemporary Radical Right -- From Populism in the World to "Neo" Populism in Europe -- Populism: More than a Thin Ideology? -- A New Party Family: Populist, Radical and Right-wing -- Terminology, Ideology, Concepts -- Economic Protectionism: Class Politics for 'Modernisation Losers' -- Cultural protectionism: nationalism and Islamophobia

"The political tradition loosely termed 'the left' has been brought to crisis point as the twentieth century draws to a close. This cohesive and wide-ranging study charts the history of the left, from its origins in the French Revolution to the present crisis." "Willie Thompson focuses on the principal currents, including the rise and fall of Bolshevism, Leninism and Stalinism; the embrace and subsequent abandonment of Marxist rhetoric by former Soviet allies in the Third World; European social democracy; and 'actually existing socialism' in states such as China and Cuba. The impact of 'alternatives' to the mainstream - Trotskyism, Maoism and Eurocommunism - is assessed, and the potential for the New Left and postwar social forces such as feminism, environmentalism and 'identity' politics to facilitate renewal is evaluated. Thompson concludes that if the left is to play any part in addressing the unfinished agenda of the post-1900s, then it must develop a clear understanding of the historical lessons that follow from its earlier embodiments." "Willie Thompson is Senior Lecturer in History at Glasgow Caledonian University."--Jacket