A Brief Global History of the Left

Shlomo Sand is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Tel Aviv.

Introduction: Equality as the Great Modern Myth 1. From the Levellers to the Enigma of Rousseau 2. The Revolution, the Terror and the Conspiracy of Equals 3. Utopia as Refuge, from Politics to Chartism 4. Springtime of the Peoples: Paris, Capital of the Nineteenth Century 5. Proudhon, Bakunin and Anarchism as Freedom 6. Marx, Engels and 'Scientific' Socialism 7. The Fourth Estate, Between Liberalism and Democracy 8. Confronting Colonialism: The White Socialist's Burden 9. Nation and Internationalism: Dying for Your Country 10. Lenin and the State: Next to the Spinning Wheel and the Bronze Axe 11. Blackshirts and Brownshirts: Right or Left? 12. Mao and Chinese Communism: 'A Hundred Flowers'? 13. The Socialist Imaginary in Postcolonial Countries 14. The Welfare State, a Working-Class Triumph? 15. Latin America and Opposition to the 'Big Stick' 16. From the Civil Rights Movement to the May '67 Uprising 17. The Struggle for Gender Equality: The Feminine Mystique 18. The Rust-Belt Proletariat and the Return of Populism 19. Consumption and Ecology: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie A Melancholy Conclusion: Inequality and the Pandemic