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WHAT IS SOCIALISM?

Howe, Irving. Essential Works of Socialism. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970.

Schmitt, Richard. Introduction to Marx and Engels: A Critical Reconstruction, 2nd ed. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997.

Tucker, Robert. The Marx-Engels Reader, 2nd ed. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1978.

Wheen, Francis. Marx’s Das Kapital: A Biography. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006.

A BIT OF HISTORICAL CONTEXT

Howe, Irving. Essential Works of Socialism. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970.

International Labour Organization. “Child Labour.” https://www.ilo.org/global/topics/child-labour/lang—en/index.htm.

Noyes, P. H. Organization and Revolution: Working Class Associations in the German Revolutions of 1848-1849. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1966.

Pennington, Joanne de. “Beneath the Surface: A Country of Two Nations.” BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/bsurface_01.shtml.

Vanhaute, Eric, Richard Paping, and Cormac Ó Gráda. “The European Subsistence Crisis of 1845–1850: A Comparative Perspective.” Helsinki: The International History Congress, 2006. http://www.helsinki.fi/iehc2006/papers3/Vanhaute.pdf.

KNOW YOUR SOCIALIST THINKERS

Blumenberg, Werner. Karl Marx: An Illustrated History. Translated by Douglas Scott. New York: Verso Books, paperback edition, 2000; originally published in German by Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, 1962.

Hewett, Caspar. “Henri de Saint-Simon: The Great Synthesist.” http://www.thegreatdebate.org.uk/Saint-Simon.html.

Hudis, Peter, and Kevin Anderson. The Rosa Luxemburg Reader. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2004.

Hunt, Tristram. Marx’s General: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels. New York: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 2009.

Luxemburg, Rosa. “Co-operation of Organised and Unorganised Workers Necessary for Victory” in The Mass Strike, the Political Party and the Trade Unions. 1906. https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1906/mass-strike/index.htm.

Miliband, Ralph. “Lenin’s The State and Revolution.” Socialist Register (1970): 309–319, as reproduced from Monthly Review. https://www.marxists.org/archive/miliband/1970/xx/staterev.htm#na.

Sebestyen, Victor. Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror. New York: Pantheon Books, 2017.

Taylor, Keith. Political Ideas of the Utopian Socialists. London: Frank Cass and Company, 1982.

SOCIALISM IN AMERICA—A BRIEF HISTORY

Bureau of Economic Analysis. “Gross Domestic Product, Fourth Quarter and Annual 2018 (Initial Estimate).” News release, February 28, 2019. https://www.bea.gov/news/2019/initial-gross-domestic-product-4th-quarter-and-annual-2018.

Burrows, Edwin and Mike Wallace. Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Democratic Socialists of America. “NPC Statement on 2018 Elections.” https://www.dsausa.org/statements/npc-statement-on-2018-elections/.

Garrow, David J. Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. New York: William Morrow & Co., 1986.

Marx, Karl. “Address of the International Working Men’s Association to Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America.” Bee-Hive Newspaper, November 7, 1865. https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/iwma/documents/1864/lincoln-letter.htm.

McCartin, Joseph A. “The Strike That Busted Unions.” New York Times, August 2, 2011. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/03/opinion/reagan-vs-patco-the-strike-that-busted-unions.html.

Nichols, John. The “S” Word: A Short History of an American Tradition… Socialism. London and New York: Verso, 2011.

Price, Tim. “The WPA Had a Low Price Tag but a Lasting Legacy.” Roosevelt Institute blog. https://rooseveltinstitute.org/wpa-had-low-price-tag-lasting-legacy/.

Salvatore, Nick. Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1984.

Thomas, Norman. Is the New Deal Socialism?: An Answer to Al Smith and the American Liberty League. https://web.archive.org/web/20110716111439/http://www.chicagodsa.org/thomasnewdeal.html.

“Milwaukee’s Daniel Webster Hoan,” Time magazine, April 6, 1936.

Wisconsin Department of Health Services. “African Americans in Wisconsin: History.” https://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/minority-health/population/afriamer-pophistory.htm.

Younis, Mohamed. “Four in Ten Americans Embrace Some Form of Socialism.” Gallup Organization, May 20, 2019. https://news.gallup.com/poll/257639/four-americans-embrace-form-socialism.aspx.

WHY DO PEOPLE HATE SOCIALISM?

Geraghty, Jim. “Venezuela’s People and ‘Collective Ownership of the Means of Production.’” National Review, May 2, 2019. https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/venezuela-true-socialism-argument-collective-ownership/.

Morabito, Stella. “Socialism’s Bloody History Shows Millennials Should Think Twice Before Supporting It,” Federalist.com, 2016. https://thefederalist.com/2016/03/15/socialisms-bloody-history-shows-millennials-should-think-twice-before-supporting-it/.

Slevin, Peter. “The Many, Tangled American Definitions of Socialism.” New Yorker, June 14, 2019. https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/the-many-tangled-american-definitions-of-socialism.

Thompson, C. Bradley. “Socialism vs. Capitalism: Which Is the Moral System,” Ashbrook.org, 1993. https://ashbrook.org/publications/onprin-v1n3-thompson/.

WHY ARE PEOPLE STILL TALKING ABOUT SOCIALISM?

Ingraham, Christopher. “Wealth concentration returning to ‘levels last seen during the Roaring Twenties,’ according to new research.” Washington Post, February 8, 2019. https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2019/02/08/wealth-concentration-returning-levels-last-seen-during-roaring-twenties-according-new-research/.

Kryza, Andy. “Every Flavor of Doritos, Ranked,” Thrillist.com, January 11, 2019. https://www.thrillist.com/eat/nation/every-doritos-flavor-ranked.

Palosky, Craig. “Analysis: Marketplace Plans Denied an Average of Nearly One in Five Claims in 2017 with Wide Variations across Insurers.” KFF.org, February 25, 2019. https://www.kff.org/private-insurance/press-release/analysis-marketplace-plans-denied-average-of-nearly-one-in-five-claims-in-2017-with-wide-variations-across-insurers/.

AN INVITATION TO DISAGREE AND KEEP TALKING

Dalio, Ray. “Why and How Capitalism Needs to Be Reformed (Parts 1 & 2).” LinkedIn Pulse, April 5, 2019. Accessed April 20, 2019. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-how-capitalism-needs-reformed-parts-1-2-ray-dalio/?dlbk&te-1&nl-dealbook&emc-edit_dk_20190408.

Ellis, Joseph. “The Green New Deal Isn’t Socialism. It’s What the Founding Fathers Wanted.” CNN.com, April 18, 2019. Accessed April 19, 2019. https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/18/opinions/green-new-deal-not-socialism-ellis/index.html.

Kight, Stef W. “Exclusive Poll: Young Americans Are Embracing Socialism.” https://www.axios.com/exclusive-poll-young-americans-embracing-socialism-b051907a-87a8-4f61-9e6e-0db75f7edc4a.html.

Younis, Mohamed. “Four in Ten Americans Embrace Some Form of Socialism.” Gallup.com, May 20, 2019. Accessed August 12, 2019. https://news.gallup.com/poll/257639/four-americans-embrace-form-socialism.aspx; and a 2019 Harris Poll as reported on Axios.com. Accessed October 3, 2019.