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Understanding Socialism: Part Two. The Seeds of Socialism.

Unf*cking The Republic

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The Enlightenment and the New World

Prior to the Enlightenment, feudal structures dominated the landscape of empires and nation states. A newly formed intellectual class was beginning to think differently about how to organize society. The French Revolution is sometimes tied to the birth of modern socialism but I see it more as a cousin than a parent.

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