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Twenty-First Century Socialism
Jeremy Gilbert
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Title: Twenty-first century Socialism / Jeremy Gilbert.
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Subjects: LCSH: Socialism--History--21st century. | Capitalism--History--21st century. | Populism--History--21st century.
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Acknowledgements
This book wasn’t one that I ever expected to write, although I’m glad I have, and it’s only thanks to the persistence and patience of my colleagues at Polity – George Owers and Julia Davies – that it’s come about at all. Keir Milburn and Alex Williams both read and commented on a first draft and were insightful and supportive as ever.
The phrase ‘twenty-first-century socialism’ obviously isn’t one that I coined: it was being used in various publications from the late 1990s onwards, and probably much earlier. I used this phrase polemically once or twice before, but the first time I used it as the title for anything, it was at the behest of Craig
