Anthony Crosland bequeathed a significant intellectual legacy to the Labour Party, including his celebrated treatise The Future of Socialism (1956), which was published sixty years ago. In this timely book, Patrick Diamond argues that Crosland continues to serve as a vital reference point for today's Labour Party. He considers a wide range of Crosland's writings on the economy and politics, relating his ideas to ideological debates taking place within today's Labour Party on egalitarian social democracy, electoral strategy, the European question, and the importance of progressive liberalism on the British centreleft. This is the first substantial work to fully consider Crosland's legacy for the Labour Party. Written in a clear and persuasive way, it will appeal to a broad audience of academics, students, activists, Labour Party members and associated think tanks.
