Socialist Thought: A Documentary History (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780231082648)

In Socialist Thought Fried and Sanders set socialism within its historical context from pre-revolutionary France to the present by using major turning points such as 1789, when the French Revolution launched socialism, to establish a chronological framework. The authors contend that though its roots can be traced to the Bible, socialism truly came into being at the end of the 18th century, the age of democratic ideas, as a response to the Industrial Revolution and an attempt to change the consciousness of society and its material organization.

Author: Albert Fried
ISBN-10: 0231082649
ISBN-13: 9780231082648
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/10/1993
Pages: 619
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.07lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.70w x 1.50d