a form of socialism in which the use and production of all services and goods are held collectively by the group or community, rather than by a central government
Victor Considerant and the Rise and Fall of French Romantic Socialism. By Jonathan Beecher. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, University of California Press, 2001. Pp. xvi + 584. [pound]40.00. This scholarly account offers a major advance in our knowledge of the development...
WASHINGTON -- In Europe, anti-Semitism has been called the socialism of fools, which is confusing because socialism is the socialism of fools. Confusion has been compounded because Europe, nearly six decades after the continent was rendered largely Judenrein, has anti-Semitism without Jews, as when the ambassador to Britain from France...
CARACAS AFP — Leftist President Hugo Chavez, a confrontational critic of the United States, was sworn in for a new six-year term, promising to expand "socialism Venezuelan-style." "I will not allow my body or soul to rest in the building of Venezuelan socialism, in the building of a new political...
Socialism by the Textbook PUBLISHERS don't give out the figures, and the authors themselves have been known to exaggerate, but no one denies that the market for economics-principles textbooks is a lucrative one. A textbook costs about $45 these days, and about 600,000 new textbooks are sold each...
AFTER PROGRESS: AMERICAN SOCIAL REFORM AND EUROPEAN SOCIALISM IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. By NORMAN BIRNBAUM. Oxford University Press. 432 pp. $35. The attempt--and failure--to bring about a genuinely socialist society remains the most momentous political-historical phenomenon of our times. It is thus appropriate...
1. Modernity and agrarianism Founding fathers Apart from being utopian colonies founded within a few years of each other in Paraguay, William Lane's New Australia and the Neuva Germania founded by Bernhard Forster and Elisabeth Forster-Nietzsche appear, superficially, to have little...
Bishop von Galen: German Catholicism and National Socialism. By Beth A. Griech-Polelle. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. Pp. 259. $35.00.) Publishers do a disservice to the reading public when they push authors to write books that cross the lines of their expertise. Such...
* LAST BASTION OF SOCIALISM: Even though he slighted some very deserving college campuses, Sen. Phil Gramm (R.-Tex.) delighted many conservatives when he vented his anger about the Democrats' stubborn opposition to cutting government spending. "The plain truth is, without being unkind," Gramm said, "there is only one place in...
SOCIAL SECURITY SOCIALISM: Mi.ar garet Thatcher reversed Britain's drift to socialism by selling off govemment-owned enterprises," wrote economist Milton Friedman in the Wall Street Journal January 26. "President Clinton now proposes that the U.S. government do precisely the opposite: buy private equities, thereby becoming partowner of U.S. enterprises." Friedman condemns...
The past has prepared all the materials and means in superabundance to well-feed, clothe, lodge, train, educate, employ, amuse, and govern the human race in perpetual progressive prosperity--without war, conflict, or competition between nations or individuals." These words were not uttered by a hopeful...
BURLINGTON, United States AFP — Socialism will get its first-ever face in the US Senate when veteran Vermont politician Bernard "Bernie" Sanders takes a seat in the powerful upper house of the legislature. In a country where most people think more of North Korea when they hear the word "socialism"...
Everyone has heard of neoconservatism and neoliberalism, but the real issue in America today is neosocialism. Classical socialism called for direct state ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange. Neosocialism just aims at political control. Socialism claimed to be more efficient. Neosocialism claims to be...
America's headlong rush into full-blown socialism accelerated on September 16 with the Federal Reserve's takeover of American International Group, Inc. AIG, one of the world's largest insurance companies. Following on the heels of the nationalization of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the seizure of AIG sent markets reeling the following...
Extremism in the service of rhetoric is no vice in Washington. At a conference of the Edison Electric Institute, the electrical utilities lobby, Representative Newt Gingrich calculated that 35 percent of the environmental movement is just stupid; their solutions are essentially socialism!' He complained that...
New World Order Any survey of the bipartisan crusade for a New World Order, and of the prospects for democratic socialism in the twenty-first century, must acknowledge both the clearest and fiercest continuing class struggles, and the most elusive and evolutionary forms of social change. Peter Berger, in his...
MOSCOW AFP — The leader of the pro-Kremlin Just Russia party Sergei Mironov called on Russians to turn to "new socialism" rather than the "barbarous capitalism of the tycoons," at a party congress Friday. "We are becoming a real opposition," Mironov told some 200 party delegates gathered in the...
A Modern-Day de Tocqueville Sounds the Alarm America's 30 Years War: Who Is Winning? By Balint Vazsonyi Regnery Publishers, 1998 285 pages, $24.95 ISBN 0-89526-354-8 With his firsthand experience of Socialist tyranny in both Nazi and Communist form, Balint Vazsonyi has an urgent and frightening message: Socialism is still alive...
Ethics and Socialism: Tensions in the Political Philosophy of J.S. SchurmanThis paper examines the political theory of the Canadian philosopher, Jacob Gould Schurman, based especially on his work, A Series of Ten Lectures on Ethics. Schurman's Prince Edward Island roots and his convictions about Canadian autonomy helped to...
Socialism, alas, is alive and well in the United States. If you doubt this, check out the farm subsidy bill that Congress passed last week. The 2002 farm bill subsidies carry a $170-billion price tag over ten years. That's twice the cost to taxpayers of any other farm subsidy bill...
In today's rapidly changing media environment, job security is fast becoming a utopian theory that few of us know first hand. And while change is good in most areas of your life, when it comes to our careers, most of us prefer...
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