The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Table of Contents - 2003 - Volume 2, Special Issue 04 (New Perspectives on Socialism II)  

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The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (2003), 2:361-376 Cambridge University Press
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Essays

Thoughts on Capitalism and Socialism: Utopian and Realistic

Martin J. Sklara1

a1 Bucknell University
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The conference at which a shorter version of this discussion was originally presented had as its theme, “Eugene V. Debs and the Politics of Dissent in Modern America.” Let me begin with a few words about “the Politics of Dissent,” because it was part of the overall framework of our discussions, and because it has a significant bearing on the way we think about capitalism and socialism.

Martin J. Sklar is Professor of History at Bucknell University. He is the author of The Corporate Recommunication of American Capitalism, 1890–1916 (1988) and The United States as a Developing Country: Studies in U.S. History in The Progressive Era and the 1920s (1992).