The Long Search For a Third Way The British

Ilaria Favretto presents a detailed study which traces the origins of the Third Way by comparing the European Left's contemporary neo-revisionism with past revisionist attempts. Focusing its analysis on the British Labour Party and the Italian Left, this book provides new interpretations and insights into the histories of both parties.

Ilaria Favretto is Senior Research Fellow, European Research Centre, Kingston University, London.

Acknowledgements

ix

List of Abbreviations

xi

Introduction

1

(16)

Part I The `Golden Years' of Capitalism and the Foundations of Revisionism

Rethinking Socialism

17

(28)

`Croslandism' and the rise of Keynesian socialism

17

(7)

1956: the rediscovery of an `Italian' road to socialism

24

(2)

The end of the Italian `anomaly'

26

(3)

The cultural reawakening of the PSI

29

(6)

A new road to socialism: the autonomist group's ascendancy

35

(3)

Wilsonism and the revival of technocratic socialism

38

(1)

The 1960s, the stagnant society and the rise of the centre-left technocratic group

39

(3)

The centre-right revisionists' hegemony on the wane

42

(3)

Structural Reforms and the `Socialist' Management of Capitalism

45

(40)

The revival of the `Third Way'

45

(1)

Automation and the new case for socialism

46

(4)

Socialists and modernisation

50

(4)

Towards a government-oriented, pragmatic, `technocratic' Left

54

(4)

Public ownership gets reinvented

58

(6)

The revival of planning

64

(7)

Towards a `catch-all' party

71

(14)

Part II The End of Social Capitalism: From Old to New Revisionism

The Crisis of Social-Democratic Politics

85

(24)

Back in power: the `socialist' management of crisis

85

(24)

Socialism in retreat

98

(6)

The rise of neo-revisionism

104

(5)

Shaping a `Post-Fordist' Third Way

109

(46)

The 1990s: the resurgence of the Left

109

(3)

The revival of ethical socialism

112

(6)

Towards `radical' politics

118

(4)

Towards a post-materialist agenda

122

(5)

The new modernisers

127

(4)

The `new global social question'

131

(4)

A new `European' road to socialism

135

(2)

Governing globalisation? Supply-side versus distributional socialism

137

(9)

From welfare to workfare

146

(9)

Moving to the Centre: Socialists Get Rid of the Cloth Cap

155

(17)

The decline of the working-class vote

156

(2)

The `middle-classisation' of third way politics

158

(8)

`Selling politics': the ascendancy of spin-doctors

166

(6)

Epilogue

172

(6)

Notes

178

(31)

References

209

(18)

Index

227

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The Long Search For a Third Way The British Labour Party and the Italian Left Since 1945

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