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Articles by Dylan Riley
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Bernstein's Heirs
in NLR 76, July-August 2012, pp. 136-150
Subjects: History and Historiography , Political Theory and Strategy
Dylan Riley on Sheri Berman, The Primacy of Politics and Ashley Lavelle, The Death of Social Democracy. Conflicting assessments of Bernstein’s legatees and the future of a reformist left.
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Tony Judt: A Cooler Look
in NLR 71, September-October 2011, pp. 31-63
Subjects: Biography and Intellectual History
Few Anglophone intellectuals have received such posthumous acclaim as the Director of the Remarque Institute, leading contributor to the New York Review of Books, and late champion of social-democracy. Regularly compared to George Orwell, if not Isaiah Berlin, does any careful examination of his oeuvre sustain such panegyrics?
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Freedom's Triumph?
in NLR 56, March-April 2009, pp. 43-59
Subjects: History and Historiography , Political Theory and Strategy
Reviving its classical definition, ‘rule of the propertyless’, Luciano Canfora recasts the story of democracy in Europe as one of successive defeats, with lessons from Louis Napoleon on the use of suffrage as legitimation for oligarchic rule. Dylan Riley assesses a remarkable historical polemic from the Italian philologist.
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Democracy's Graveyards?
in NLR 48, November-December 2007, pp. 125-136
Subjects: Political Theory and Strategy , Social Theory
Dylan Riley on Michael Mann, The Dark Side of Democracy. A bold theoretical construction of causal relations between democratization and genocide, tested through detailed historical studies.
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Enigmas of Fascism
in NLR 30, November-December 2004, pp. 134-147
Subjects: History and Historiography
Dylan Riley on Michael Mann, Fascists and Robert Paxton, Anatomy of Fascism. Alternative versions of the rise of a paramilitary Right in interwar Europe: were fascist movements ideologically coherent or inchoate, revolutionary or counter-revolutionary?
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Also available in Spanish and Greek