Ralph Miliband | |
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 Miliband in 1958 | |
| Born | Adolphe Miliband 7 January 1924 Brussels, Belgium |
| Died | 21 May 1994 (aged 70) London, England |
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| Political party | Labour (1951–1964) |
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| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | London School of Economics |
| Thesis | Popular Thought in the French Revolution, 1789–1794 (1957) |
| Doctoral advisor | Harold Laski |
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| Discipline | Sociology |
| Sub-discipline | Political sociology |
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| Doctoral students | Leo Panitch[1][2] |
| Notable students | |
| Notable works | The State in Capitalist Society (1969) |
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| Military career | |
| Service | Royal Navy |
| Years of service | 1943–1946 |
| Rank | Chief petty officer |
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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.[8]
Miliband was born in Belgium to working-class Polish Jewish immigrants. He fled to Britain in 1940 with his father, to avoid persecution when Nazi Germany invaded Belgium. Learning to speak English and enrolling at the London School of Economics, he became involved in left-wing politics and made a personal commitment to the cause of socialism at the grave of Karl Marx. After serving in the Royal Navy during the Second World War, he settled in London in 1946 and naturalised as a British subject in 1948.
By the 1960s, he was a prominent member of the New Left movement in Britain, which was critical of established socialist governments in the Soviet Union and Central Europe (the Eastern Bloc). He published several books on Marxist theory and the criticism of capitalism, such as Parliamentary Socialism (1961), The State in Capitalist Society (1969), and Marxism and Politics (1977), and he edited the Writings of the Left series (Jonathan Cape and Grove Press, 1972–1973).[9][10]
Both of his sons, David and Ed Miliband, went on to become senior members of the Labour Party following their father's death. David was the British Foreign Secretary from 2007 to 2010, with Ed serving as Energy Secretary from 2008 to 2010. Both contested the 2010 Labour Party leadership election (UK), which was narrowly won by Ed who served as Leader of the Opposition from 2010 to 2015. Ed returned to government in 2024, taking on his previous portfolio as Energy Secretary.
- ^ Hurl, Chris; Christensen, Benjamin (2016). "Building the New Canadian Political Economy" (PDF). Studies in Political Economy. 96: 183. doi:10.1080/19187033.2015.11674942. ISSN 1918-7033. S2CID 155950833.
- ^ Panitch, Leo (7 August 2014). "Interview – Leo Panitch". E-International Relations. Interviewed by Fletcher, Louis. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
- ^ Allen, Josh (18 October 2013). "The Resurrection of Ralph Miliband". Jacobin. Retrieved 18 June 2020.
- ^ Kidd, Colin (2011). "The Warren Commission and the Dons: An Anglo-American Microhistory". Modern Intellectual History. 8 (2): 415. doi:10.1017/S1479244311000242. ISSN 1479-2443. S2CID 144003532.
- ^ Hopkinson, Amanda (16 February 2012). "Allan Segal Obituary". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 18 June 2020.
- ^ Coates, Tom (27 September 2018). "David Coates Obituary". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
- ^ Sunkara, Bhaskar (2014). "Project Jacobin". New Left Review (90): 35. Retrieved 18 June 2020.
- ^ Blackledge, Paul (4 January 2011). "Labourism and socialism: Ralph Miliband's Marxism". International Socialism. No. 129. Socialist Workers Party. ISSN 1754-4653. Archived from the original on 3 November 2013. Retrieved 13 November 2013.
- ^ Selected Writings, worldcat.org. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
- ^ "Writings of the Left" Cape, worldcat.org. Retrieved 8 February 2024.