1998-1999 director's lectures by Professor Lord Giddens
Politics After Socialism
'The core of the lectures is
about the impact of socialist traditions, where they came from, the role of Marx
and Marxism within them, and what their fate is today. I don’t think you can
understand contemporary political debate without a good sense of the impact
socialism and Marxism have made in world history. Socialism and Marxism are not
just academic concerns. They have shaped nineteenth and twentieth century world
history. Something happened in the last twenty or thirty years which blunted
that. In the last three or four lectures I will be looking at what the fate of
socialism is and why it seems to have collapsed. But before that I plan to
discuss Marx, Marxism and the contours of socialist thinking.'
