Socialism as a secular creed : a modern global history
This book provides a historical overview of socialism as a modern political religion. Taking a global history approach, the author explores the varieties of the socialist experience, including Marxism, anarchism, Soviet communism, German national socialism, Maoism, Israeli kibbutzim, Tanzanian ujama...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Lanham Boulder New York London : Lexington Books,
[2021]
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| Schlagworte: | Socialism Socialism and religion Socialism-History Electronic books Sozialismus Säkularisation Globalisierung Geschichte |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (xlii, 451 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | This book provides a historical overview of socialism as a modern political religion. Taking a global history approach, the author explores the varieties of the socialist experience, including Marxism, anarchism, Soviet communism, German national socialism, Maoism, Israeli kibbutzim, Tanzanian ujamaa, and the cultural woke left in the West. Cover -- Socialism as a Secular Creed -- Socialism as a Secular Creed: A Modern Global History -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- Socialism Studies and Socialism as a Modern Political Religion -- Utopians, Marxists, Anarchists, and Ethno-Nationalism -- How Do We Name It? "Socialism," "Communism," and "Social Democracy" -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- Religion of Modernity -- "Rational Brethren of the West": Robert Owen, New Harmony and Socialist Halls of Science -- "Conspiracy of Equals" and the "New Christianity" of Henri Saint-Simon -- Comte's Religion of Humanity and Saint-Simonian Apostles -- Notes -- Chapter 2 -- "Sabbath of History" -- Toward "Scientific Socialism": Marx, Engels, and Hess -- "Scientific" Magic and Communist Millennium: Marx and Engels Invent the Proletariat -- Marx and Engels Purge Anarchist Heretics -- How to Assimilate a Peasant Commune into Marxism: Marx and Russian Populist Seekers -- Notes -- Chapter 3 -- Great Schism -- Socialist Organizer and Womanizer: The Fast Life of Ferdinand Lassalle -- Reforming the Creed: Bernstein Revisionism and Fabians -- Radical Cosmopolitans: Lenin, Luxemburg, and the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution -- State of the Future: "War Socialism" to "War Communism," 1914-1918 -- Notes -- Chapter 4 -- Prophecy of the World Revolution and Nationalist Temptations, 1917-1930s -- "Red Jesuits": Bolshevik Dreams of the World Revolution, 1917-1923 -- From the Communist International to Socialism in One Country, 1919-1929 -- "Our Own People": Making of Jewish Socialist Identity -- Notes -- Chapter 5 -- National Bolshevism -- Cannibalizing the Countryside: Collectivization and Industrialization, 1929-1933 -- Stalinist Social Engineering and the Great Terror, 1934-1939 -- Late Stalinism, 1940sc-1953sc -- Political Religion of Marxism-Leninism -- Notes -- Chapter 6. |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (xlii, 451 pages) Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9781498557313 1498557317 9781498557306 1498557309 |