From Substitution To Transcendence - The Evolution Of British Labor Party 's Socialism After World War

Socialism views involve the criticism of the capitalism, the ideas of socialism in the future, and the way how to achieve socialism.Considering the important position of Labour party’s ideology theory in the history of European socialist theory’s development and the uniqueness of its own theory change, the author choosed the socialism views of Labour party as the research object.This article selected the time from the end of worldWarII to the establishment of the third way, because this was a period when Labour party’s ideology theory had some significant changes, and endured profound transformation.Through study of Labour party’s socialism evolution, especially the comparison of socialism for Labour party’s different factions, we can summarize the evolution rules and trend,and explore the reasons for this change, to deepenthe research for Labour party which plays an important role in the political arena.This article includes introduction, the body part, references, abstract as well as postscript etc. The introduction part, mainly introduced the significance of choosing this topic, research status, research methods and thesis innovation point.In the body part, the first part introduced the background of the evolution history about the Labourparty’s socialism,namely put the evolution into thechanges of post-warcapitalism, the changes in the European democratic socialism theory, and the traditional theory of Labour party itself to analyze;The second part introducedthe reflection to the traditional socialist concept from the "revisionists" who come from Labour party in the fifties and sixties, which started the evolution course of Labour Party’s Socialist views;The third part introduces the left-wing Labour Party sticked to the traditional Socialist Concept and pursued to the alternative systems in seventies;The fourth part introduced the transformation of the Labour Party’s socialist views in nineties, namely from replacing capitalism system to proposing the Third Way,without considering the ideology;Finally, the article summarized the main line and trend of the evolution of the Labour party’s Socialist views, explored the causes of its changes, and noted difficulties and crises faced by this transcendent.