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this original study, Radhika Desai is concerned with the role of intellectuals
in left-wing parties, focusing on the social democratic tradition in the Labour
Party.
The disintegration of the SDP project only served to underline one of the
basic propositions of the book: that the SDP was a terminal manifestation
of a particular intellectual project rooted in the Labour Party, rather than
the 'mould-breaking' beginning it was presented and accepted as being.
'provides an informative and refreshing contrast to other accounts'
Mark Wickham-Jones, Times Literary Supplement
'a thoughtful reappraisal of the revisionist tradition'
Dominic Wring, Political Studies
Radhika Desai is a lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the
University of Victoria, Canada.