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The Anti-Capitalism Course: “Next-Generation Socialism?”

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With Stephen Hicks, Ph.D. The fourth session of The Anti-Capitalism Course will be “Next Generation Socialism?” Socialist intellectual Robert Heilbroner’s question: If we acknowledge the disasters of 20th-century socialism, what lessons can we learn to do socialism better next time? Link to register for the session at Kazm. Reading in preparation for the session: Robert […]

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Hicks on “Democratic Socialism for Beginners”

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This unit of our Atlas University course on Socialism analyzes democratic socialism: In our generation, most socialists have shifted away from overtly dictatorial socialism. Among younger people is some level of awareness of socialism’s terrible history but they still think of it as an ideal to be striven for. What do they hope for and

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Alan Charles Kors, “Socialism’s Legacy: Lest We Forget” [Atlas Intellectuals]

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If you are not familiar with Professor Kors’s work, give yourself a treat and check out his lecture at Clemson University, which we feature as part of our Waterfall course on Socialism. Dr. Kors is a professor of history (emeritus) at the University of Pennsylvania and an expert in European intellectual history and co-founder of

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George Orwell, “Review of *The Totalitarian Enemy* by F. Borkenau” [Atlas Intellectuals]

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This week on the Atlas University course on Socialism we feature the Executive Summary of George Orwell’s “Review of The Totalitarian Enemy by F. Borkenau.” Orwell was clear-eyed about the dangers of authoritarian socialisms in Germany and Russia. In this 1940 review of The Totalitarian Enemy by Franz Borkenau, Orwell weighs the socialist credentials of Adolf Hitler’s

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Stephen Hicks, “Your Sex Life Under Socialism” [Atlas Intellectuals]

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This unit on Socialism features Stephen Hicks’s “Your Sex Life Under Socialism.” Here’s the logic: “If human beings are the most important means of production and socialism means collective ownership of the means of production, then socialism means collective ownership of human beings. And if human beings are produced by sexual reproduction and socialism is

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Robert Heilbroner, “Socialism” [Atlas Intellectuals]

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In this week on the Waterfall course on Socialism: Robert Heilbroner, “Socialism”. Robert Heilbroner (1919-2005) was the most distinguished American academic socialist of the 20th century. In this article, written after the fall of the Soviet Union, Heilbroner argues as a social scientist that socialists must diagnose accurately the failings of socialist experiments in order to correct

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Mises, *Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis* [Atlas Intellectuals]

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In this unit of our self-paced course on Socialism, we start with a 7-point summary of Ludwig von Mises’s classic Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis, focusing on socialism’s economic inconsistencies. Mises compares the principles of Socialism and Liberal-Capitalism and finds they differ not in their aims, but in their understanding of justice and the

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