History of socialism : a comparative survey of socialism, communism, trade unionism, cooperation, utopianism, and other systems of reform and reconstruction / Harry W. Laidler.

1944 and 1949 edition published under title: Social-economic movements.

"First published in 1969. First issued in paperback ed 2010".

Bibliography: pages 877-941.

Includes index.

PART ONE: UTOPIANISM AND ITS PRECURSERS: The social prophets -- Plato's Republic -- From Plato to Sir Thomas More -- More's Utopia -- Bacon's New Atlantis -- German and Italian Utopians -- Social thought through the Seventeenth Century -- The French Utopians -- Forerunners of Robert Owen -- Robert Owen -- Utopianism in America -- The significance of Utopianism: modern Utopian writers -- PART TWO: MARXISM: Beginnings of Marxism -- The Communist Manifesto and the Revolutions of 1848 -- Marx's career after 1848 -- Theoretical foundations of Marxism -- PART THREE: OTHER SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT (1880-1914): Forerunners of the Fabians -- Fabianism -- Beginnings of German social democracy -- Eduard Bernstein and Revisionism -- Marxists' reply to Revisionists -- Frency Syndicalism -- Guild Socialism -- PART FOUR: COMMUNISM: Russia to the Bolshevik Revolution -- Principles and tactics of Communism -- Soviet Russia through the five-year plans -- The1936 Soviet Constitution: Communist Party controls -- Soviet economic and socialist institutions and policies -- Criticisms of early Communist principles and tactics -- Changes in Communist tactics: their significance -- PART FIVE: SOCIALIST MOVEMENTS IN VARIOUS LANDS: Labor and Socialism in Great Britain and Western Europe -- Socialism in Central Europe -- The Socialist movement in Northern Europe -- Labor's struggle against dictatorships in Italy and Spain -- Labor and Socialism in Australasia -- Socialism in South Africa and Asia -- Socialism in the United States and Canada -- Labor and Socialist thought in Latin America -- PART SIX: RECENT SOCIALIST THOUGHT: Socialist thought after the First World War -- Recent programs for Reconstruction and a Socialized society -- PART SEVEN: CONSUMER CO-OPERATION AND MISCELLANEOUS MOVEMENTS: The Co-operative Movement -- Social aspects of a Consumers' Co-operatives -- Variants of Socialism -- PART EIGHT: CONTRIBUTIONS OF VARIOUS SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC MOVEMENTS: Internationals: Socialist, Labor, and Communist -- Post-World War II: European Socialist developments -- Post-World War II Socialist developments in Non-European areas -- Consumers' Cooperatives: Post-World War II developments -- Recent Socialist thought -- General summary.