Socialist Thought: A Documentary History

by · 1964

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It's a great compendium of socialist & quasi-socialist thought ranging from Jean Jacques Rousseau to Utopians such as Henri Saint-Simon, Charles Fourier, Robert Owen & Pierre Joseph Proudhon. Some of the early German socialists such as Johann Gottlieb Richte & Moses Hess, the anarchists such as Michael Bakunin & wild Peter Kropotkin & many more including Bolsheviks (Georgi Plekhanov, Karl Kautsky) & modern socialists such as Antoni Gramsci. A handy collection for the intellectual reader & the graduate student needing to prepare for comprehensive exams.

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long · 559 pages

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