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Understanding Socialism: Part Two. The Seeds of Socialism.
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Believe it or not, we’re still not up to Karl Marx because we’re mired in the turn of the 19th Century. Part Two reveals the progenitors of socialist theory toward the end of the Enlightenment era. Charles Fourier, Henri de Saint-Simon and Robert Owen lay the groundwork coming out of the American and French revolutions by imagining new societies and mechanisms of power. In their writings we begin to see the roots of Marxian philosophy and draw upon concepts and experiments that would influence Marx and others during the second industrial revolution.
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Encyclopedia of Marxism: Events
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Howard Zinn: Commemorating Emma Goldman: 'Living My Life'
Stanford: Hegel's Dialectics
The History of Economic Thought: Cesare Beccaria
Stanford: Jeremy Bentham
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Book Love
Joseph A. Schumpeter: Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy
John M. Thompson: Revolutionary Russia, 1917
Bernard Harcourt: Critique and Praxis
Ray Ginger: The Bending Cross: A Biography of Eugene Victor Debs
Karl Marx: The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx: Das Kapital
Michael Harrington: Socialism: Past and Future
Victor Serge + Natalia Ivanovna Sedova: Life and Death of Leon Trotsky
Anne Sebba: Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy
Bernie Sanders: It’s Ok to Be Angry about Capitalism
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