Mathieu Fulla, Marc Lazar (eds.), European Socialists and the State in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

It is a commonplace in American political discourse that socialists are statists, zealous to resolve society’s ills through the intervention of activist government. To nineteenth-century European labor militant, however, this might come as surprise. The state, he saw it, was not there lend helping hand but repress, and gendarme military man, social worker, were its emblematic agents. Late twentieth century Third Way on model Tony Blair al...