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John Strachey, Socialist Thinker and Labour Politician, 1901-63

Noel Thompson

Dictionary of Labour Biography, Volume: 10, Pages: 187 - 195

Swansea University Author: Noel Thompson

Abstract

The chapter considers the economic thinking of John Strachey from his liberal socialism of the 1920s, through the period when he was the most famous and effective populariser of Marxian political economy to the socialist revisionism of works such as Contemporary Capitalism, 1956.

Published in: Dictionary of Labour Biography
Published: Basingstke Macmillan 2000
URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa25637
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Abstract: The chapter considers the economic thinking of John Strachey from his liberal socialism of the 1920s, through the period when he was the most famous and effective populariser of Marxian political economy to the socialist revisionism of works such as Contemporary Capitalism, 1956.
Keywords: Socialism, Marxism, Political Economy, Revisionism, Strachey
College: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Start Page: 187
End Page: 195