| Description |
1 online resource (401 pages) |
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Intro; About the author; Summary; Tables and figures; 1 The enduring appeal of socialism; Introduction: socialism is popular; The pervasiveness of socialist assumptions; Socialism and social democracy; A lazy straw man?; Not for a lack of trying; The straw men that were once alive; 2 The Soviet Union under Stalin: 'A whole nation marched behind a vision'; Soviet socialism; Stalin's pilgrims; Remnants of Soviet apologetics today; Conclusion; 3 China under Mao Tse-Tung: 'A revolutionary regime must get rid of a certain number of individuals that threaten it'; Maoist socialism; Mao's pilgrims |
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Remnants of Maoist apologetics todayConclusion; 4 Cuba under Fidel Castro: 'The beginning of building the new man'; ¡Hasta Siempre, Comandante!; Castro's pilgrims; Why is Cuba different?; 5 North Korea under Kim Il Sung: 'A messiah rather than a dictator'; North Korean socialism; Kim Il Sung's pilgrims; Remnants of North Korea apologetics today; 6 Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge: 'The kingdom of justice'; 7 Albania under Enver Hoxha: 'The working class is in power'; 8 East Germany under the SED: 'The organised might of the working class'; East German socialism |
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Western admirers of the GDR: the early yearsWestern admirers of the GDR: the later years; Remnants of GDR apologetics today; A note on pro-GDR revisionism; 9 Venezuela under Hugo Chávez: 'A different, and a better way of doing things. It's called socialism'; Socialism of the twenty-first century; Chávez's pilgrims; After the zenith; Coming full circle; The aftermath: not real socialism -- again; 10 Why socialist ideas persist; Haidt's social intuitionist model and Caplan's theory of 'rational irrationality'; Intuitive anti-capitalism, or anti-capitalism as a default position |
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The Gary Lineker fallacyConclusion; 11 Epilogue An alternative history: real socialism is being tried; References; About the IEA; Table 1 Support for regulation; Table 2 Distribution of seats in the new People's Chamber; Figure 1 Support for public ownership by sector (in %); Figure 2 Support for public ownership by sector (in %); Figure 3 Support for price controls by sector (in %); Figure 4 Support for a larger state (in %); Figure 5 Economic Freedom scores; Figure 6 GDP per capita (PPP), People's Republic of China vs. Republic of China (Taiwan), 1980-2017 |
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Figure 7 Poverty in China, 1981-2013 (poverty line = 3.10 PPP per day)Figure 8 GDP per capita (PPP), Albania vs. Romania and Bulgaria, 1985-2017 (in current international); Figure 9 GDP per capita (PPP) in Chile and Venezuela, 1980-2016; Figure 10 Oil prices in current US, 1989-2017, by presidency; Figure 11 Key governance indicators, 2000-2015; Figure 12 Global GDP per capita over time (in constant international 1990); Figure 13 Global population and global poverty, 1850-2010; Figure 14 Global average life expectancy at birth (years), 1870-2015 |
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Figure 15 Annual number of hours worked per worker |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Socialism -- History
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Socialism
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780255367714 |
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0255367716 |
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