Book Description
The author presents a case for socialism today built on the words and ideas of history's greatest leaders, thinkers, and artists.
Author : G. S. Griffin
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,72 MB
Release : 2020-01-21
Category : Equality
ISBN : 9781632461018
The author presents a case for socialism today built on the words and ideas of history's greatest leaders, thinkers, and artists.
Author : Seymour Martin Lipset
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 32,90 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780393322545
Why socialism has failed to play a significant role in the United States - the most developed capitalist industrial society and hence, ostensibly, fertile ground for socialism - has been a critical question of American history and political development. This study surveys the various explanations for this phenomenon of American political exceptionalism.
Author : Jack Ross
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 14,73 MB
Release : 2015-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1612344909
"A complete history of the Socialist Party of America, beginning with the roots of American Marxism in the nineteenth century"--
Author : Jessie Wallace Hughan
Publisher :
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 23,72 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Socialism
ISBN :
Author : Bhaskar Sunkara
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 46,41 MB
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1786636921
The success of Jeremy Corbyn's left-led Labour Party and Bernie Sanders's 2016 presidential campaign revived a political idea many had thought dead. But what, exactly, is socialism? And what would a socialist system look like today? In The Socialist Manifesto, Bhaskar Sunkara, editor of Jacobin magazine, argues that socialism offers the means to achieve economic equality, and also to fight other forms of oppression, including racism and sexism. The ultimate goal is not Soviet-style planning, but to win rights to healthcare, education, and housing and to create new democratic institutions in workplaces and communities. The book both explores socialism's history and presents a realistic vision for its future. A primer on socialism for the 21st century, this is a book for anyone seeking an end to the vast inequities of our age.
Author : Stanley Kurtz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 35,27 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1439155097
Journalist Stanley Kurtz examines the politics of Barack Obama, focusing on his alleged socialist convictions, and suggesting that Obama's visions for the United States and long-term strategy are influenced by connections to radical groups and the Socialist Scholars Conferences.
Author : William J. Federer
Publisher : Amerisearch, Incorporated
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,31 MB
Release : 2020-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780989649186
SOCIALISM: THE DREAM OF AN IDEAL SOCIETY? Is it a wonderful "utopia" or a totalitarian nightmare? Will everything be free or will deep-state bureaucrats decide who gets what? Did Plato, Thomas More, & Francis Bacon propose social ownership of property? Is there a difference between socialism and communism? Did Pilgrims attempt "a communistic plan of life"? What happened? How did the Pilgrims' covenant under God become the Age of Enlightenment's social contract with a distant God, become the French Revolution's social contract with no god, become Marxism's "the state is god"? "If the state gives rights, it can, and inevitably will, take away those rights"-Eisenhower. Was France's Reign of Terror a model for future violent socialist revolutions? The Bible talks about private property, yet Marx wrote: "The theory of the communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property." Coolidge wrote: "It does not follow that because something ought to be done, the national government ought to do it." What did socialism do to Russia, Romania, Poland, Hungary, China, North Korea, Cuba, Cambodia, and Venezuela? What are honor-shame cultures? What are the group dynamics which can manipulate individuals with peer-pressure to surrender their private views to fit in with a group. Who was Joseph Goebbels, who said: "Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play." How did he control mob emotions? Learn about the political tactics of "deconstruction," "psychological projection," and "seizing the moral high ground." Is the form of government the problem or is the problem deeper - the selfishness inherent in the human heart? What is the only real solution? FIND THE ANSWERS TO THESE QUESTIONS AND MORE IN THIS EYE-OPENING BOOK!
Author : John Nichols
Publisher : Verso
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 43,88 MB
Release : 2011-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 184467679X
Political reporter Nichols argues that socialism has a long, proud American history. This short, irreverent book gives Americans back a crucial part of their history and makes a forthright case for socialist ideas today.
Author : Michael Kazin
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 10,15 MB
Release : 2012-09-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0307279197
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NEWSWEEK/THE DAILY BEAST, THE NEW REPUBLIC, THE PROGRESSIVE The definitive history of the reformers, radicals, and idealists who fought for a different America, from the abolitionists to Michael Moore and Noam Chomsky. While the history of the left is a long story of idealism and determination, it has also been a story of movements that failed to gain support from mainstream America. In American Dreamers, Michael Kazin—one of the most respected historians of the American left working today—tells a new history of the movements that, while not fully succeeding on their own terms, nonetheless made lasting contributions to American society. Among these culture shaping events are the fight for equal opportunity for women, racial minorities, and homosexuals; the celebration of sexual pleasure; the inclusion of multiculturalism in the media and school curricula; and the creation of books and films with altruistic and anti-authoritarian messages. Deeply informed, judicious and impassioned, and superbly written, this is an essential book for our times and for anyone seeking to understand our political history and the people who made it.
Author : James Otteson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 18,27 MB
Release : 2014-10-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1107017319
The End of Socialism explores the difficulties socialism faces and examines the extent to which its moral ideals can guide policy.