Socialism: Let’s Not Resuscitate the Worst Mistake of the 20th Century

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In the mid-19th century, socialism and communism were largely synonymous, and as often as not they referred to the dream of a future without all the institutions at the service of bankers, landlords, and factory owners; a future without the State. Since Marxism crowded out the utopian variations of socialism, however, the term has come to refer to the authoritarian shift in the international anticapitalist movement. Throughout the 20th century socialism referred to a range of state policies, whether these were states created in the course of revolutions or pre-existing states captured…

Socialism: Let’s Not Resuscitate the Worst Mistake of the 20th Century

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