Harry Laidler. Social-Economic Movements.

Contents

PART ONE

Utopianism and Its Precursors

1 – The Social Prophets

2 – Plato’s Republic

3 – From Plato to Sir Thomas More

4 – More’s Utopia

5 – Bacon’s New Atlantis

6 – German and Italian Utopias

7 – Social Thought through the Seventeenth Century

8 – The French Utopians

9 – The Forerunners of Robert Owen

10 – Robert Owen

11 – Utopianism in America

12 – The Significance of Utopianism—Modern Utopian Writers

PART TWO

Marxism

13 – Beginnings of Marxism

14 – The Communist Manifesto and the Revolutions of 1848

15 – Marx’s Career after 1848

16 – Theoretical Foundation of Marxism

PART THREE

Otuher Schools of Thought (1880-1914)

17 – Forerunners of the Fabians

18 – Fabianism

19 – Beginnings of German Social Democracy

20 – Eduard Bernstein and Revisionism

21 – Marxists’ Reply to Revisionists

22 – French Syndicalism

23 – Guild Socialism

PART FOUR

Communism

24 – Russia to the Bolshevik Revolution

25 – Principles and Tactics of Communism as Expounded in the Communist Manifesto of the Third International (1919)

26 – Soviet Russia through the Five-Year Plans

27 – The 1936 Soviet Constitution—Communist Party Controls

28 – Soviet Economic and Social Institutions and Policies

29 – Criticisms of Early Communist Principles and Tactics

30 – Changes in Communist Tactics; Their Significance

PART FIVE

Socialist Movements in Various Lands

31 – Labor and Socialism in Great Britain and Western Europe

32 – Socialism in Central Europe

33 – The Socialist Movement in Northern Europe

34 – Labor’s Struggle against Dictatorship in Italy and Spain

35 – Labor and Socialism in Australasia

36 – Socialism in South Africa and Asia

37 – Socialism in the United States and Canada

38 – Labor and Socialist Thought in Latin America

PART SIX

Recent Socialist Thought

39 – Socialist Thought after the First World War

40 – Recent Programs for Reconstruction and a Socialized Society

PART SEVEN

Consummer Co-operation and Miscellaneous Movements

41 – The Consumers’ Co-operative Movement

42 – Social Aspects of Consumers’ Co-operatives

43 – Variants of Socialism

PART EIGHT

Contributions of Various Social and Economic Movements

44 – Internationals: Socialist, Labor, and Communist

45 – Post-World War II European Socialist Developments

46 – Post-World War II Socialist Developments in Non-European Areas

47 – Consumers’ Co-operatives—Post-World War II Developments

48 – Recent Socialist Thought

49 – General Summary

Selected References