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Ralph Miliband (born Adolphe Miliband; 7 January 1924 – 21 May 1994) was a British sociologist. He has been described as "one of the best known academic Marxists of his generation", in this manner being compared with E. P. Thompson , Eric Hobsbawm and Perry Anderson .
Jul 16, 2017 · BIOGRAPHY: Ralph Miliband, Socialist Intellectual, 1924–1994, by Leo Panitch. Ralph Miliband, 1924–1994, by Tariq Ali.
The Miliband–Poulantzas debate was a debate between Marxist theorists Ralph Miliband and Nicos Poulantzas concerning the nature of the state in capitalist societies. Their exchange was published in New Left Review, beginning with Poulantzas's review of Miliband's 1969 work on bourgeois democracies, The State in Capitalist Society. [1]
The book’s final chapter, ‘Ralph Miliband Today’, achieves its purpose in showing how the resonance of his writing, its lucidity, empirical basis, and refusal of dogma, as well as its political themes and moral concerns, are of enduring importance.
The death of Ralph Miliband in May, shortly after his seventieth birthday, takes from us an outstanding advocate of democratic socialism, the leading Marxist political scientist in the English-speaking world, and someone who was an inspiration to several generations of the New Left.
Jun 16, 2019 · Fifty years after it was published, Ralph Miliband's The State in Capitalist Society remains indispensable for any socialist movement with ambitions of power.
Ralph Miliband stood as a beacon on the international Left. He epitomized what it meant to be a creative and independent socialist intellectual, and he provided consistent leadership in defining the issues for critical engagement.
