Prospects for Democratic Socialism in Advanced Capitalism: Class Struggle and Compromise in Sweden and France

Politics & Society

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1982, Pages 397-438

  Kesselman, Mark ^a  

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EID: 84976925869     PISSN: 00323292     EISSN: 15527514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003232928201100402     Document Type: Article

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85. For a similar approach, see John L. Hammond, “Two Models of Socialist Transition in the Portugese Revolution” (unpublished paper, City University of New York, 1981).
86. Le Matin, May 28, 1982.