Socialism
Overview
History
Theory in Depth
Theory in Action
Analysis and Critical Response
Topics for Further Study
Bibliography
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Overview
Socialism is a much used and abused term, which...
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Socialism
Socialism has been one of the most popular political ideas in history, rivaling in some ways even the great religions. By the late 1970s, a mere 150 years from the time the term socialism wa...
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Socialism [addendum]
Socialism has seen enormous changes since the above entry was written. Its cachet has gone up and down and, after an all-time low during the early 1990s, is now perhaps going to g...
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Socialism
This entry is concerned with "socialism" from the time at which, so far as anyone knows, the word was first used in print to describe a view of what human society should be lik...
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In the following essay, Reszler probes the origins of socialist aesthetic theory.
The study of the socialist vision of art as revealed in the thoughts of Michael Bakunin and Karl Marx—philos...
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In the following excerpt, Boggs traces the sources of socialism in Marxist thought.
The modern concepts of democracy and socialism have their origins in the late-eighteenth- and nineteenth-century ...
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In the following essay, Brown explores the significance of food and gastronomy in the thought of three French socialist theorists—Pierre Leroux, Etienne Cabet, and Charles Fourier.
The years...
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In the following essay, Lawler elucidates Alexis de Tocqueville's view of—and opposition to—socialism.
My purpose here is to consider Tocqueville's understanding of soci...
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In the following essay, first published in 1983, Taylor surveys the principal nineteenth-century feminist proponents of Robert Owen's socialist thought.
Until the late 1820s, adherence to Ow...
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George Lichtheim claimed that "One can have democracy without socialism and vice versa. Whether the two can be effectively combined is the prime question of our age." To what extent do you agree with ...
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Around 2.7 million people have incorrect Social Security payment information on a needed tax document, the Social Security Administration said Thursday as the agency moved quickly to mail out corre...
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In another jab at his chief rival, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama says in an ad released Sunday that the country needs an honest dialogue about Social Security in order to fix the s...
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Robert M. Ball, a former Social Security commissioner considered by many as its chief defender and the father of Medicare, has died at age 93.Ball's death Tuesday was announced by the National Acad...
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Web browser pioneer Marc Andreessen helped bring the Internet to the masses during the 1990s. Now the Netscape Communications co-founder is trying to help Web surfers build online communities outsi...
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Web browser pioneer Marc Andreessen helped bring the Internet to the masses during the 1990s. Now the Netscape Communications co-founder is trying to help Web surfers build online communities outsi...
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The Bush administration said in a new report Monday that Social Security is facing a $13.6 trillion shortfall in coming years and that delaying reforms is not fair to younger workers.A report issue...
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The baby boomers' stampede for Social Security benefits has begun.The nation's "first" baby boomer, a retired teacher from New Jersey, applied for Social Security benefits Monday, signaling the sta...
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For 17-year-old Amanda Sanchez, social networking is an obsession, a distraction _ and when she moved to a new town last summer, it was her lifeline."Over the summer, MySpace was my best friend," s...
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For 17-year-old Amanda Sanchez, social networking is an obsession, a distraction _ and when she moved to a new town last summer, it was her lifeline."Over the summer, MySpace was my best friend," s...
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Socialism
Socialism
Socialism [addendum]
Critical Essay by André Reszler
Socialism and Democracy
Social Security sends out incorrect info
