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Thoughts on Capitalism and Socialism: Utopian and Realistic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 November 2010

Martin J. Sklar
Martin J. Sklar
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Bucknell University
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The conference at which a shorter version of this discussion was originally presented had as its theme, “Eugene V. Debs and the Politics of Dissent in Modern America.” Let me begin with a few words about “the Politics of Dissent,” because it was part of the overall framework of our discussions, and because it has a significant bearing on the way we think about capitalism and socialism.

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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. 361 - 376
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Copyright © Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 2003

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References

1 See Sklar, M. J., The United States as a Developing Country: Studies in United States History in the Progressive Era and the 1920s (Cambridge, UK, 1992)CrossRefGoogle Scholar, chs. 1 and 7; and Sklar, M. J., “Capitalism and Socialism in the Emergence of Modern America: The Formative Era, 1890–1916,” in Reconstructing History, eds., Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth and Lasch-Quinn, Elisabeth (New York, 1999)Google Scholar, ch. 22, 304–21, also available in a longer version, dated December 1997, on the SHGAPE website.

2 “Capitalism and Socialism,” in Reconstructing History, 310.