Some Books About History Of Socialism And So On

Ryan Chapman On (The History Of) Socialism

I found the above video fairly reasonable. Chapman tends to depict history as a debate about ideas, with little about material developments. In other videos, he seems unreliable on the new left, post modernism, and identity politics. My Marx includes a mathematical economist.

This post provides some lists. As usual, I expect my lists are quite idiosyncratic. Some items, with more investigation, I might dislike.

• Books:
• Gary Dorrien, American Democratic Socialism: History, Politics, Religion, and Theory (2021).
• Albert Fried and Ronald Sanders, Socialist Thought: A Documentary History, 2nd edition. (1992).
• Doug Greene, A Failure of Vision: Michael Harrington and the Limits of Democratic Socialism (2022).
• Stuart Jeffries, Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School (2017). There should be a broader history of western Marxism from this century.
• John Humphrey Noyes History of American Socialisms (out-dated. I did not know that the founder of the Oneida community wrote this.)
• Podcast tutorials through YouTube:
• Democracy at Work
• Marxism Today
• Radio Free Humanity
• Second Thought

I have recently stumbled upon Midwestern Marx.

I suppose if I want to understand the history of socialism, I should know the meaning of at least some of these terms. I have previously listed terminology for Marxism.

• Anarchism
• Anarcho-Syndicalism
• Autonomism
• Bolsheviks
• Catastrophism: See Maximalism.
• Communards: The members of the Paris commune, the result of a revolution in 1871, defeated by mass murder.
• Communism
• Council Communism
• Critical Theory: See Franfurt School.
• Democratic Centralism
• Democratic Socialism
• Dialectical Materialism: Also known as Historical Materialism.
• Economism: The doctrine, held especially by leaders of labor unions, that political agitation should be confined to shorter hours, better pay, and better working conditions, without challenging the existence of capitalism. See Lenin's What Is To Be Done?
• Entryism
• Eurocomminism
• Fabianism
• Fordism
• Frankfurt School: A school of thought associated with the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research. Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Fromm, Habermas, Max Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse, and Friedrich Pollock are some noted members. See Critical Theory.
• Idealism
• Jacobinism
• Keynesianism
• Leninism: See Democratic Centralism, Vanguard Party.
• Maoism
• Mass Worker
• Marxism
• Maximalism
• Mensheviks
• New Left
• Operaismo (Workerism)
• Orthodox Marxism
• Popular Front: Alliance of all non-Nazi parties. Contrast with United Front.
• Revisionism
• Ricardian Socialism
• Sewer Socialism:
• Social Democracy
• Social Worker
• Socialism
• Stalinism
• Structuralism: Louis Althusser, Nicos Poulantzas
• Trotskyism
• United Front: Alliance of leftist parties. Contrast with Popular Front.
• Utopian Socialism
• Vanguard Party
• Voluntarism
• Western Marxism: Karl Korsch, Lukacs, Gramsci, Althusser, for example.