Expectations for the Millennium: American Socialist Visions of the Future

by Peter H. Buckingham

Book Overview

Early in the twentieth century, American socialists dared to dream of a future based on cooperation rather than competition. Socialism was a movement broad enough to encompass many points of view regarding the Red millennium. Socialist women, novelists, newspaper editors, and civil rights advocates, Christian socialists and Wobblies strained their eyes to see a future cooperative Commonwealth.

Edward Bellamy portrayed socialism in the year...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313316708
• ISBN13: 9780313316708
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.6"