The Cambridge History of Socialism: Volume 1

Volume I offers a world-encompassing overview of state negating (utopian, early socialist, anarchist, syndicalist) movements and thinkers.

Marcel van der Linden (Edited by)

9781108481342, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 24 November 2022

688 pages
23.5 x 15.8 x 3.7 cm, 1.23 kg

This volume describes the various movements and thinkers who wanted social change without state intervention. It covers cases in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia. The first part discusses early egalitarian experiments and ideologies in Asia, Europe and the Islamic world, and then moves to early socialist thinkers in Britain, France, and Germany. The second part deals with the rise of the two main currents in socialist movements after 1848: anarchism in its multiple varieties, and Marxism. It also pays attention to organisational forms, including the International Working Men's Association (later called the First International); and it then follows the further development of anarchism and its 'proletarian' sibling, revolutionary syndicalism – its rise and decline from the 1870s until the 1940s on different continents. The volume concludes with critical essays on anarchist transnationalism and the recent revival of anarchism and syndicalism in several parts of the world.

Introduction to Volume I Marcel van der Linden
Part I. Beginnings
Section 1. Egalitarianism: 1. Mazdak and late antique 'socialism' Touraj Daryaee
2. Egalitarianism in Islamic thought and praxis Asma Afsaruddin
3. Egalitarianism in Europe: Hussites, Anabaptists, Racovians, Hutterites and Diggers Thomas A. Fudge
4. The Taiping land program: creating a moral environment Rudolf G. Wagner
Section 2. Early Socialisms: 5. Saint-Simon and Saint-Simonism Jeremy Jennings
6. Robert Owen and Owenism Gregory Claeys
7. Charles Fourier and Fourierism Jonathan Beecher
8. Etienne Cabet and the Icarian movement in France and the United States Christopher H. Johnson
9. Wilhelm Weitling and early German socialism Bertel Nygaard
Section 3. The Arrival of the Hostile Siblings: Marxism and Anarchism:
10. The International Working Men's Association (1864–1876/77) Fabrice Bensimon
11. Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and early workers' movements Lucia Pradella
12. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's mutualist social science Alex Prichard
13. Mikhail Bakunin and social anarchism Wolfgang Eckhardt
14. Peter Kropotkin and communist anarchism Ruth Kinna
Part II. Negating State Power
Section 4. The North-Atlantic Region:
15. Anarchism and syndicalism in France Alexander Varias
16. Spain in revolt: the revolutionary legacy of anarchism and anarcho-syndicalism George Esenwein
17. Anarchism and syndicalism in Italy Carl Levy
18. Anarchism and syndicalism in the United Kingdom David Goodway
19. Anarchism and syndicalism in the United States Kenyon Zimmer
Section 5. Africa, Asia, Latin America:
20. Mexican socialism John Mason Hart
21. Anarchism and syndicalism in Argentina Geoffroy de Laforcade
22. Anarchism and syndicalism in Brazil Claudio Batalha
23. Anarchism and Syndicalism in Southern Africa Lucien van der Walt
24. Anarchism and syndicalism in China Gotelind Müller
Section 6. Worldwide Connections:
25. Anarchist transnationalism Constance Bantman
26. The global revival of anarchism and syndicalism Felipe Corrêa.

Subject Areas: Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies [JPFF], Marxism & Communism [JPFC], Anarchism [JPFB], General & world history [HBG]