Intellectuals and Socialism 'Social Democrats' and the British Labour Party

"In a stimulating interpretation [Desai] argues that the Social Democrats evolved directly from Labour's right-wing revisionists in the early 1970s and that their departure from the party represented both the theoretical exhaustion of this tradition and its declining influence within Labour. The historical slant to her argument provides an informative and refreshing contrast to other accounts of the 1981 split which have focused on the immediate causes of the crisis....Desai, by contrast, charts the rise of revisionism , its ambiguous relationship with other elements of the party, and its transformation into social democracy in the early 1970s."Desai, Radhika is the author of 'Intellectuals and Socialism 'Social Democrats' and the British Labour Party' with ISBN 9780853157953 and ISBN 0853157952.