Seeking social democracy : seven decades in the fight for equality
The first full-length treatment of Ed Broadbent’s ideas and remarkable seven-decade engagement in public life Part memoir, part history, part political manifesto, Seeking Social Democracy offers the first full-length treatment of Ed Broadbent’s ideas and remarkable seven-decade engagement in public life. In dialogue with three collaborators from different generations, Broadbent leads readers through a life spent fighting for equality in Parliament and exploring the formation of his social democratic ideals, his engagement on the international stage, and his relationships with historical figures from Pierre Trudeau and Fidel Castro to Tommy Douglas, René Lévesque, and Willy Brandt. From the formative minority Parliament of 1972–1974 to the contentious national debate over Canada’s constitution to the free trade election of 1988, the book chronicles the life and thought of one of Canada’s most respected political leaders and public intellectuals from his childhood in 1930s Oshawa to the present day. Broadbent’s analysis also points toward the future, offering lessons to a new generation on how principles can inform action and social democracy can look beyond neoliberalism. The result is an engaging, timely, and sweeping analysis of Canadian politics, philosophy, and the nature of democratic leadership.
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xviii, 309 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm - Publisher 2023
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General Note: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents
Seeking Social Democracy : Seven Decades in the Fight for Equality
Section | Section Description | Page Number |
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A Note from Ed Broadbent | vii | |
Introduction | ix | |
Chapter 1 | Thinking My Way to Social Democracy | 1 |
Chapter 2 | Ideology and Respect | 19 |
Chapter 3 | The Balance of Power | 42 |
Chapter 4 | The Rights Revolution | 68 |
Chapter 5 | Ordinary Canadians | 86 |
Chapter 6 | Social Democracy without Borders | 113 |
Chapter 7 | The Great Patriation Debate | 134 |
Chapter 8 | National Questions | 160 |
Chapter 9 | Globalization and the Struggle for Equality | 182 |
Chapter 10 | The Grey Ideology | 206 |
Postscript The Good Society | 227 | |
Notes | 231 | |
Appendix 1 | The Nature of Political Theory (1965-1967) | 238 |
Appendix 2 | Speech to the House of Commons, September 20, 1968 | 243 |
Appendix 3 | Bill C-3 | 249 |
Appendix 4 | Industrial Democracy: A Proposal for Action (1969) | 251 |
Appendix 5 | Speech to the 1975 New Democratic Party Convention | 256 |
Appendix 6 | Address to the Socialist International Congress (1978) | 260 |
Appendix 7 | The 1983 Regina Manifesto | 266 |
Appendix 8 | A Tribute to David Lewis (1981) | 271 |
Appendix 9 | Nicaragua, the United States, and Social Change (1986) | 274 |
Appendix 10 | Speech to the House of Commons, November 24, 1989 | 280 |
Appendix 11 | The Broadbent Principles for Canadian Social Democracy (2021) | 292 |
Acknowledgements | 295 | |
Index | 297 |