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Heaven on Earth : the rise, fall, and afterlife of socialism /
Socialism was man's most ambitious attempt to supplant religion with a doctrine claiming to ground itself in "science." Each failure to create societies of abundance or give birth to "the New Man" inspired more searching for the path to the promised land: revolution, commune...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Encounter Books,
2019.
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| Edición: | Second paperback edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface to the second edition
- Prologue: changing faiths. Beginnings : Conspiracy of equals: Babeuf plots a revolution
- New harmony: Owen conducts an experiment
- Scientific socialism: Engels interprets the oracle
- What is to be done?: Bernstein develops doubts. Triumphs : Real existing socialism: Lenin seizes power
- Fascism: Mussolini becomes a heretic
- Social democracy: Attlee takes the slow road
- Ujamaa: Nyerere forges a synthesis. Collapse : Union card: Gompers and Meany hear a different drummer
- Perestroika and modernization: Deng and Gorbachev repeal communism
- The party of business: Blair redefines social democracy
- The Kibbutz goes to market. Afterlife : Epilogue: rising from the ashes.