The Future of Socialism

‘The Future of Socialism is very good indeed. It is within its chosen field exhaustive, written with a professional economic, political and sociological equipment, and illuminated by touches of wit; the product of a cultivated and humane intelligence. It is a major work and no one must in future take part in the current and, | trust, growing and continuing controversy an Socialism, without having read it.’ JOHN STRACHEY, NEW STATESMAN

C. A. R. Crosland is Labour Member of Parliament for Grimsby. Before entering politics in 1950 he was a Fellow : in economics at Trinity College, Oxford. He was a contributor to New Fabian Essays, and in 1956 pubiished his monumental work The Future of Socialism. He later : spent three years as Secretary of the Independent Commission on the Co-operative Movement. He was the leading ‘revisionist’ spokesman in the internal Labour Party dispute which followed the 1959 election. He has been prominent in the Consumers’ Association and in Civic Trust affairs, and was Chairman of the Fabian Society in 1961-2. In 1962 he published The Conservative Enemy, in which he outlined a programme of radical reform for Britain in the 1960s.