Socialism as a secular creed : a modern global history /
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Lanham :
Lexington Books,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- 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
- True Believers, Fellow Travelers, and Dissenters (1920s-1940s)
- Ludwig von Mises and "Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth" (1920)
- "Perfect Equilibrium": How OSKAR Lange "Defeated" Friedrich Hayek, 1930s
- F.A. Hayek, George Orwell, and the Left Mainstream
- Light from the East: Western Fellow Travelers
- Notes
- Chapter 7
- Creating Community
- Emergence of German National Socialism
- Hitler's Willing Beneficiaries
- "Socialism of the Race": Nazi Ideology
- Politics of Nazi Studies: From National Socialists to Nazi
- Notes
- Chapter 8
- "Regime of Goodness"
- Between Marx and Keynes: European Social Democracy Search for the "Third Way"
- Building "People's Home" in Sweden
- "Swedish Socialism" and Its Fate
- Notes
- Chapter 9
- Blood and Soil in the Palestine Desert
- From Eastern Europe to Palestine: Populists, Folk Community, and Socialist Zionism
- Kibbutz Settlements and the Religion of Labor
- The Culture of Nationalist Socialism