Author Description

This book offers an analysis of the apparent contradiction in the socialist movement between refusal to participate in electoral politics & the neccessity, particularly in advanced industrial countries, of participating in the electoral process. The author brings clarity to this discussion with a historical analysis of the practices of the U.S. Socialist, Communist & Trotskyist parties, examining the successes & failures of their approaches toward electoral politics. The conclusion draws together & synthesizes historical experience in a way which points toward a more logical way for revolutionary parties to make use of the electoral process.