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Understanding Socialism: Part One. An Introduction to Socialism.

Unf*cking The Republic

CHAPTER

The Confusion of Social Democracy and Democratic Socialism

The 2008 financial crisis, the Occupy movement in 2011, and the rise of Bernie Sanders have ushered us into a new era. The roots of socialism predate Karl Marx but one of his great contributions was to define certain ideas and build them into an economic framework. Before we can know where you're going if you don't know from whence you came, we have to know what the hell we're talking about.

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