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<p><p>socialism Was Man's Most Ambitious Attempt To Supplant Religion With A Doctrine Claiming To Ground Itself In Science. Indeed, No Religion Ever Spread So Far So Fast. Yet While Socialism Had Established Itself As A Fact Of Life By The Beginning Of The 20th Century, It Did Not Create Societies Of Abundance Or Give Birth To The New Man. Each Failure Inspired New Searches For The Path To The Promised Land&#58; Revolution, Communes, Social Democracy, Communism, Fascism, Third World Socialism. None Worked, And Some Exacted Staggering Human Tolls. Then, After Two Hundred Years Of Wishful Thinking And Fitful Governance, Socialism Suddenly Imploded In A Fin Du Siecle Drama Of Falling Walls And Collapsing Regimes. In Heaven On Earth, Joshua Muravchik Traces This Fiery Trajectory Through Sketches Of The Thinkers And Leaders Who Developed The Theory, Led It To Power, And Presided Over Its Collapse. We See Such Dreamers And Doers As The French Revolutionary Gracchus Babeuf, Whose Conspiracy Of Equals Were The First To Try To Outlaw Private Property; Robert Owen, Who Hoped To Plant A Model Socialist Utopia In The United States; Friedrich Engels, Who Created The Cult Of Karl Marx And Scient

Author

Muravchik, Joshua.

Publisher

Encounter Books, 2003.

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9786612878305

Subjects

History, Political Science, Economics

Updated

2026-03-24