Social-Economic Movements: An Historical and Comparative Survey of Socialism, Communism, Co-Operation, Utopianism; and Other Systems of Reform and Reconstruction

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• Title Page iii
• Preface v
• Contents vii
• Acknowledgments xix
• Part One - Utopianism and Its Precursors 1
• Part One - Utopianism and Its Precursors 2
• Chapter 1 - The Social Prophets 3
• Chapter 2 - Plato's Republic 9
• Chapter 3 - From Plato to Sir Thomas More 16
• Chapter 4 - More's Utopia 22
• Chapter 5 - Bacon's New Atlantis 30
• Chapter 6 - German and Italian Utopias 34
• Chapter 7 - Social Thought Through the Seventeenth Century 38
• Chapter 8 - The French Utopians 44
• Chapter 9 - The Forerunners of Robert Owen 71
• Chapter 10 - Robert Owen 86

• Title Page iii
• Preface v
• Contents vii
• Acknowledgments xix
• Part One - Utopianism and Its Precursors 1
• Part One - Utopianism and Its Precursors 2
• Chapter 1 - The Social Prophets 3
• Chapter 2 - Plato's Republic 9
• Chapter 3 - From Plato to Sir Thomas More 16
• Chapter 4 - More's Utopia 22
• Chapter 5 - Bacon's New Atlantis 30
• Chapter 6 - German and Italian Utopias 34
• Chapter 7 - Social Thought Through the Seventeenth Century 38
• Chapter 8 - The French Utopians 44
• Chapter 9 - The Forerunners of Robert Owen 71
• Chapter 10 - Robert Owen 86
• Chapter 11 - Utopianism in America 100
• Chapter 12 - The Significance of Utopianism-- Modern Utopian Writers 110
• Part Two - Marxism 119
• Chapter 13 - Beginnings of Marxism 121
• Chapter 14 - The Communist Manifesto and the Revolutions of 1848 130
• Chapter 15 - Marx's Career After 1848 145
• Chapter 16 - Theoretical Foundation of Marxism 160
• Part Three - Other Schools of Thought (1880-1914) 171
• Chapter 17 - Forerunners of the Fabians 173
• Chapter 18 - Fabianism 184
• Chapter 19 - Beginnings of German Social Democracy 223
• Chapter 20 - Eduard Bernstein and Revisionism 237
• Chapter 21 - Marxists' Reply to Revisionists 257
• Chapter 22 - French Syndicalism 277
• Chapter 23 - Guild Socialism 316
• Part Four - Communism 345
• Chapter 24 - Russia to the Bolshevik Revolution 347
• Chapter 25 - As Expounded in the Communist Mani­ Festo of the Third International (1919) 367
• Chapter 26 - From the Revolution to the Rise of Stalin 384
• Chapter 27 - The 1936 Soviet Constitution- Communist Party Controls 412
• Chapter 28 - Soviet Economic and Social Institutions and Policies 431
• Chapter 29 - Criticisms of Early Communist Principles and Tactics 447
• Chapter 30 - Changes in Communist Tactics; Their Significance 459
• Part Five - Socialist Movements in Various Lands 473
• Chapter 31 - Labor and Socialism in Great Britain and Western Europe 475
• Chapter 32 - Socialism in Central Europe 505
• Chapter 33 - The Socialist Movement in Northern Europe 529
• Chapter 34 - Labor's Struggle Against Dictatorship in Italy and Spain 548
• Chapter 35 - Labor and Socialism in Australasia 563
• Chapter 36 - Socialism in South Africa and Asia 571
• Chapter 37 - Socialism in the United States and Canada 577
• Part Six - Recent Socialist Thought 621
• Chapter 39 - Socialist Thought After the First World War 623
• Chapter 40 - Recent Programs for Reconstruc­ Tion and A Socialized Society 636
• Part Seven - Consumer Co-Operation and Miscellaneous Movements 677
• Chapter 41 - The Consumers' Co-Operative Movement 679
• Chapter 42 - Social Aspects of Consumers' Co-Operatives 708
• Chapter 43 - Variants of Socialism 719
• Part Eight - Contributions of Various Social and Economic Movements 745
• Chapter 44 - General Summary 747
• Selected References 753
• Index 807