Heaven on Earth
The Rise, Fall, and Afterlife of Socialism
Ranked #97 in Socialism
Socialism was man's most ambitious attempt to supplant religion with a doctrine claiming to ground itself in "science." Each failure to create societies of abundance or give birth to "the New Man" inspired more searching for the path to the promised land: revolution, communes, social democracy, communism, fascism, Arab socialism, African socialism. None worked, and some exacted a staggering human toll. Then, after two centuries of wishful thinking and bitter disappointment, socialism imploded in a fin de si�cle drama of falling walls and collapsing regimes. It was an astonishing... more
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