Robert Heilbroner was the most famous American socialist intellectual of the 20th century. His The Worldly Philosophers sold millions, making it the second-best-selling economics textbook of all time. In my Business and Economic Ethics course, we read and discuss one of his articles. Here is Heilbroner, writing in 1980, about who owns what under socialism: […]
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Quotations on Nazi socialism and fascism. Excerpt from Nietzsche and the Nazis.
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With Stephen Hicks, Ph.D. The fourth session of The Anti-Capitalism Course will be “Next Generation Socialism?” Socialist intellectual Robert Heilbroner’s question: If we acknowledge the disasters of 20th-century socialism, what lessons can we learn to do socialism better next time? Link to register for the session at Kazm. Reading in preparation for the session: Robert
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In this week on the Waterfall course on Socialism: Robert Heilbroner, “Socialism”. Robert Heilbroner (1919-2005) was the most distinguished American academic socialist of the 20th century. In this article, written after the fall of the Soviet Union, Heilbroner argues as a social scientist that socialists must diagnose accurately the failings of socialist experiments in order to correct
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Introducing this new Atlas Intellectuals course on Socialism we will consider how Socialists define Socialism throughout the years Karl Marx, Henri de Saint-Simon, Robert Heilbroner and more. The full course: https://www.atlassociety.org/course/socialism Other Atlas Intellectuals courses on Capitalism, Objectivity, Money, Robotics, and more: https://www.atlassociety.org/atlas-university/atlas-intellectuals
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Three attempts to sort out the new-style socialisms of this generation: * Nathan Pinkowski’s “The Strange Rise of Bourgeois Bolshevism” (May 2020): “The task American socialists have set themselves is to achieve and sustain a culture of free self-creation. But this culture, the culture of individual autonomy, grows out of the bourgeois.” * My “Young
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Or was he opposed to capitalism on principle? My 32-minute podcast discussion. Available at various listening sources: YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/opencollege… Bitchute http://www.bitchute.com/opencollegepo… Apple Podcasts https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/o… SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/opencollegepod… Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/poss… Google Play https://play.google.com/music/m/Iuram… Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2qgnmMD…
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