num_pages: 600
description: An expansive and ambitious intellectual history of democratic socialism from one of the worlds leading intellectual historians and social ethicistsThe fallout from twenty years of neoliberal economic globalism has sparked a surge of interest in the old idea of democratic socialisma democracy in which the people control the economy and government no group dominates any other and every citizen is free equal and included. With a focus on the intertwined legacies of Christian socialism and Social Democratic politics in Britain and Germany this book traces the story of democratic socialism from its birth in the nineteenth century through the mid1960s. Examining the tenets on which the movement was founded and how it adapted to different cultural religious and economic contexts from its beginnings through the social and political traumas of the twentieth century Gary Dorrien reminds us that Christian socialism paved the way for all liberation theologies that make the struggles of oppressed peoples the subject of redemption. He argues for a decentralized economic democracy and anti-imperial internationalism.
language: English
title: Social Democracy in the Making: Political and Religious Roots of European Socialism
publisher: Yale University Press