Title: History of socialism; a comparative survey of socialism, communism, trade unionism, cooperation, utopianism, and other systems of reform and reconstruction
Authors: Laidler, Harry Wellington, 1884-1970.
Publisher: Crowell
Year: 1968
Subjects: Socialism History; Communism History; Utopias
Abstract: Originally published in 1944, this title introduces the reader to the main developments, the key issues, and the basic ideas for which socialists have struggled in society and over which they have struggled among themselves.
Contents: PART ONE: UTOPIANISM AND ITS PRECURSERS: The social prophets -- Plato's Republic -- From Plato to Sir Thomas More -- More's Utopia -- Bacon's New Atlantis -- German and Italian Utopians -- Social thought through the Seventeenth Century -- The French Utopians -- Forerunners of Robert Owen -- Robert Owen -- Utopianism in America -- The significance of Utopianism: modern Utopian writers -- PART TWO: MARXISM: Beginnings of Marxism -- The Communist Manifesto and the Revolutions of 1848 -- Marx's career after 1848 -- Theoretical foundations of Marxism -- PART THREE: OTHER SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT (1880-1914): Forerunners of the Fabians -- Fabianism -- Beginnings of German social democracy -- Eduard Bernstein and Revisionism -- Marxists' reply to Revisionists -- Frency Syndicalism -- Guild Socialism -- PART FOUR: COMMUNISM: Russia to the Bolshevik Revolution -- Principles and tactics of Communism -- Soviet Russia through the five-year plans --^