Class War Conservatism and Other Essays

Born in Belgium in 1924, Ralph Miliband moved to Britain in 1940. Serving in the Royal Navy during the war, he then studied at the LSE and became a leading member of the New Left. He set up the Socialist Register in 1964 while he continued to teach in London, Leeds and the US. He is the author of defining works such as Capitalist Democracy in Britain and Socialism for a Sceptical Age. He died in 1994.

Title: Class War Conservatism and Other Essays

Author: Ralph Miliband

ISBN: 9781781687703

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Publisher: Verso Books

Publication Date: 2015-01-21

Number of Pages: 368

Weight: 0.3601 kg

A veritable giant of a man who had an almost unique capacity to understand - and explain - the world in which we live. Tony Benn An inspiring teacher of politics and an internationally renowned figure on the British Left, Daily Telegraph, A Miliband speech was always a treat; alternately sarcastic and scholarly, witty and vicious. Tariq Ali; A beacon on the international Left. He epitomized what it meant to be a creative and independent socialist intellectual, and he provided consistent leadership in defining the issues for critical engagement.- Leo Panitch; His whole effort is to render the language of socialism in terms of the needs of the here and now. - Raphael Samuel; [Miliband's] perspective-simultaneously hopeful and clear-eyed, fiercely principled but tethered to reality-made the British socialist the most impressive Marxist of his generation. - Shawn Gude, In These Times