The Challenges of the New Social Democracy

Raju J Das is Professor at York University, Toronto. His research interests include Marxist political economy and social theory. His recent books are Marxist Class Theory for a Skeptical World, and Marx's Capital, Capitalism, and Limits to the State. Aram Eisenschitz teaches at the Business School, Middlesex University, UK. His research interests include spatial political economy, urban planning and tourism. He and Jamie Gough are the authors of The Politics of Local Economic Policy and Spaces of Social Exclusion. Jamie Gough taught at Sheffield University. His research interests include spatial political economy, local and national societies, theories of economic crisis, dynamics of the labour process, social reproduction, and poverty. He is author of Work, Locality and the Rhythms of Capital.

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1 Introduction

  Raju J. Das, Jamie Gough and Aram Eisenschitz


2 Associationism: the New Social Democracy from Below

  Jamie Gough


3 Social Capital and Class: a Critical Theoretical Examination

  Raju J. Das


4 Social Capital in the Spaces of Civil Society

  Raju J. Das


5 Social Capital at the Zone of Interaction between the State and Civil Society

  Raju J. Das


6 The Social Economy and Socialist Strategy

  Aram Eisenschitz and Jamie Gough


7 Rooting Working Class Struggle in Locality, and Taking It beyond

  Jamie Gough and Aram Eisenschitz


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