Social-economic movements; an historical and comparative survey of socialism, communism, co-operation, utopianism; and other systems of reform and reconstruction / Harry W. Laidler ...
Utopianism and its precursors: The social prophets; Plato's republic; From Plato to Sir Thomas More; More's Utopia; Bacon's New Atlantis; German and Italian Utopias; Social thought through the seventeenth century; The French Utopians; The foreunners of Robert Owen; Robert Owen; Utopianism in America; THe significance of Utopianism-morden Utopian writers -- Marxism: Beginnings of Marxism; The communist manifesto and the revolutions of 1848; Marx's career after 1848; Theoretical foundation of Marxism -- Other schools of thought (1880-1914): Forerunners of the Fabians; Fabianism; Beginniings of German Social democracy; Eduard Bernstein and revisionism; Marxists' reply to revisionists; French syndicalism; Guild socialism -- Communism: Russia to the Bolshevik Revolution; Principles and tactics of communism as ex-pounded in the communist manifesto of the Third International; Soviet Russia through the five-year plans; The 1936 Soviet Constitution-communist party controls; Soviet economic and social institutions and policies; Criticism of early communist principles and tactics; Changes in communist tactics -- Socialist movements in various lands: Labor and socialism in Great Britain and Western Europe; Socialism in Cetral Europe; The socialist movement in Northern Europe; Labor's struggle against dictatorship in Italy and Spain; Labor and socialism in Australaisa; Socialism in South Africa and Asia; Socialism in the United States and Canada; Labor and socialist thought in Latin America Mexico -- Recent socialist thought: Socialist thought after the First World War; Recent programs for reconstruction and a socialized society -- Consumer co-operation and miscellaneous movements: The consumers' co-operative movement; Social aspects of consumers' co-operatives; Variants of socialism -- Contributions of various social and economic movements.