The Socialist Minimum
May 25, 2018
What would it take to build a global challenge to neoliberal capitalism? How might socialists from different countries join together and devise collective solutions to problems that transcend national borders? Talbot C. Imlay provides a historical answer to these questions in his important new book The Practice of Socialist Internationalism: European Socialists and International Politics, 1914-1960 (OUP, 2018). Check out my review essay in H-Diplo. It turns out that pragmatic cooperation between center-left parties in the mid-twentieth century came at a steep price: the abandonment of socialist principles. Today that’s a price socialists can no longer afford to pay.