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Socialism: Mission Accomplished or Mission Impossible?  

Donald Sassoon ▪ Spring 2025

Those who discuss socialism confront two distinct but not incompatible strategies: the essentialist and the historical. The former, Weber-like, presents socialism as an ideal-type, deduced from the activities or ideas of those identified as socialists. Once the concept is constructed, …



Social Democracy and the Europe of Tomorrow  

Donald Sassoon ▪ Winter 1994

By the late 1950s all West European socialist and social democratic parties (I shall use the terms interchangeably) had abandoned in practice, and some in theory too, the idea of socialism as an “end-state” or “final goal.” What had been …



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