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Harry Hay was an English-born American labor advocate, teacher and early leader in the American LGBT rights movement. He is known for his roles in helping to found several gay organizations, including the Mattachine Society, the first sustained gay rights group in the United States which in its early days had a strong Marxist influence.
Socialism is an economic system characterised by social ownership and control of the means of production and cooperative management of the economy, and a political philosophy advocating such a system.
Henry George, American social reformer [11] Charles Hall, British physician, social critic and Ricardian socialist [95] Christopher Hitchens, English-American journalist [96] Owen Jones, English journalist and political commentator [97] Helen Keller, American political activist [98] Martin Luther King Jr., African-American civil rights leader ...
First, it must be noted that the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) – one of the three major socialist organizations used to compile our socialist candidate list – decided to refrain from ...
This section describes Robert Owen and early utopian socialism before discussing the development of the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Attention turns to Vladimir Lenin and the Bolshevik Revolution, the American labor movement, and finishes with an examination of Canadian socialism.
The United States of America has flummoxed socialists since the nineteenth century. Marx himself couldn’t quite understand why the most advanced economy in the world stubbornly refused to ...
The history of socialism has its origins in the Age of Enlightenment and the 1789 French Revolution, along with the changes that brought, although it has precedents in earlier movements and ideas. The Communist Manifesto was written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in 1847-48 just before the Revolutions of 1848 swept Europe, expressing what ...
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