Modern Socialism by Massimo Salvadori (eds.)

By Massimo Salvadori (eds.)

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Scandinavian democratic socialists did relatively little nationalizing of enterprises. The public sector of the economy competed with the private, cooperativism was encouraged, allocation of resources was regulated, public services expanded, labor and social legislation improved. Democratic socialist parties in Belgium, the Netherlands, and Switzerland adopted programs similar to those of the Scandinavian parties. In the United States, democratic socialism, organized in the American Socialist Party, reached its maximum electoral strength in 1920, when its Presidential candidate, Eugene V.

Will it not be by having one man a farmer, another a builder, and a third a weaver? " "I certainly think so," he said. " [Education is discussed by Socrates at considerable length. Education in the ideal community is rigidly enforced selective indoctrination, as shown by the following two passages:] " . . We have settled . . " " . . The founders [of a city] ought to know the canons in accordance with which the poets should tell their stories, and which they are not allowed to trangress. . " "And he will tell us rightly," he said.

They have no tailors or dressmakers, since everyone on the island wears the same son of clothes-except that they vary slightly according to sex and marital status. These clothes last for a lifetime, they're quite pleasant to look at, they allow free movement of the limbs, they're equally suitable for hot and cold weather-and the great thing is, they're all home-made. So everybody learns one of the other trades I mentioned, and by everybody I mean the women as well as the men-though the weaker sex are given the lighter jobs, like spinning and weaving, while the men do the heavier ones.

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