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New Perspectives on Socialism II Socialism and Capitalism Reconsidered

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 November 2010

Richard Schneirov
Richard Schneirov
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Indiana State University
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The July 2003 special issue of the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era revisited the history of the Socialist Party of America during the Progressive Era. This second issue on “New Perspectives on Socialism” examines socialism largely outside the party context, thereby challenging the tendency of scholars and non-scholars alike to identify socialism with a party-based political movement. To the degree that the essays collected here examine party-based socialism, they focus on the gradualist or revisionist wing of the party, whose socializing and democratic reforms, programs, and ideas helped establish a context for the Progressive Era and thereafter, when a “social democratic” type of politics became intrinsic to the mainstream American politics.

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Editor's Introduction
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The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era , Volume 2 , Special Issue 4: New Perspectives on Socialism II , October 2003 , pp. 351 - 360
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Copyright © Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 2003

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