Bush administration and later jared cohen set the precedent due to the deaths of their predecessors. Enjoy book tv now and over the weekend on cspan2. Starting out on book tv World Affairs Institute Distinguished fellow joshua project discusses the views of socialism. Thanks to jeff and charles for the hospitality. And as alluded to, this is quite an august group including im afraid a number of people who know as much about the subject asi do. Im going to do my best to leave plenty of time for giveandtake around thetable. The book, socialism is in the airright now. The book is first of all a history and im going to quickly set the history and then spend some minutes on whats happening today and then we will have a backandforth or around the table. So the term socialism was coined in the 1820s and 30s by the followers of a small group of thinkers, british and french who were not out to overthrow governments but had ideas of a Better Society of sharing and also had the quite good idea th
Leave plenty of time for a giveandtake around the table. Socialism is in the air right now but the book first of all is a history i will quickly set the history then spend some minutes and then we can have a back and forth. So socialism was coined by the followers of a small group of thinkers the british and french they were about to overthrow governments who had ideas of sharing and also have the quite a good idea the way to get there was to demonstrate the validity of their ideas. And they created through the mid 18 hundreds 40 or 50 of these experimental communities mostly in the United States even though these visionaries were europeans. Why in the United States . Its easy to get land and because the social mores were much more fluid and their ideas were taken seriously. Perhaps the most important was robert oh when he announced he was coming to the United States to create a community to demonstrate the validity of his ideas and was taken tremendously seriously he commissioned an a
Starting now on booktv, World Affairs Institute Distinguished fellow Joshua Muravchik discusses the history and current popularity of socialism. Thanks, jeff, thanks to charles for the hospitality. As jeff alluded to, this is quite an august group including any number of people who know as much about the subject as i do. I will do my best to leave plenty of time for give and take around the table. Socialism is in the air right now but the book is first of all the history and i am going to quickly sketch the history and then spend some minutes on what is happening today and then have a back and forth or around the table. The term socialism was coined in the 1820s or 30s by the followers of a small group of thinkers, british and french who were not out to overthrow government but had ideas of a Better Society of sharing and also had the quite good idea that the right way to get there was to demonstrate the validity of their ideas and they created, their followers created over a period, t
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