Volume 13, Number 9 · November 20, 1969
The Old, Old Left
By Eugene Kamenka
The Origins of Socialism
by George Lichtheim
Praeger, 302 pp., $6.95
Socialist history, as Mr Lichtheim remarks in this splendid new book, 'is often written as the story of egalitarian strivings, as ancient perhaps as society itself, or as the record of intellectual systems spun by men reflecting upon the injustices of the social order and determined to set them right.' At the other extreme, it is sometimes written—in the (vulgar) materialist mode—as though it were simply the story of the class movement of the industrial proletariat.
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