The Socialist Ideas of the British Left's Alternative Economic Strategy | Baris Tufekci
This book provides the first book-length study of the political and economic ideas of the British leftâs Alternative Economic Strategy in the 1970s and early 1980s. Discussing the AESâs approaches to capitalism, the nation state and the working class, it argues that existing academic accounts have significantly overstated the radicalism of the strategy. Perhaps more notable, especially in the light of its stated ârevolutionaryâ aims, was the extent of its moderation â its continuities with post-war Labour revisionism, its marked reluctance to look beyond the market ec...