: Comrad Green could you please tell me who wrote Socialism.. like who was the father? Kind of like Marx to communism. I would like to read the initial ideas of socialism. Comrade you ask me an almost impossible task.
You must, unfortunately since the left is so devided, be more specific.
The Everret Citizen has wrote a good posting on how the first socialists were the early christians and the Bible could form as much a basis as Das Capital, Marxs work.
Communism and socialism are not entirely distinct also. The main difference being whether you agree with radical democracy and dictatorship or the current reformist democracy. Incidentially the current form of democracy assumes that everyone is equally aware of society when people are actually only aware of what the corporates or state party tells them.
~If you want Democratic socialism read anything by the British Fabian Society.
~Anarchist Socialism read Kropotkin ("property is theft") or even the contemporary Noam Chomsky (especially What Uncle Sam Really Wants or Class Warfare the other books deal with specific issues e.g. the media)
~Revolutionary Socialism contact Pathfinder Press and read Che Guevara or the 'Haves and Have nots' tracts of Malcolm X or Martin Luther King.
~Syndico-Marxism or the use of a Marxist rebellion and a trade union rebellion read James Connolly Labour in Irish History or Socialism Made Easy.
In general the origins of non-Marx socialism is the French Revolutionary concept of egality (equality).
That is about it I recommend Che Guevara and beginners should realy read Andrew Vincents Modern Political Ideologies 2nd Edition.
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