Article: Elie Halevy's first lectures on the history of European Socialism.

Elie Halevy (1870-1937) is not only hailed for his contributions to the history of utilitarianism or to the history of modern democracy in England, but he is also generally depicted as a great liberal thinker. French commentators, from Raymond Aron to Nicolas Baverez, have noted the Montesquieu-Tocqueville-Halevy intellectual tradition. (1) Indeed, Halevy's perception of the contradictory nature of socialism is considered one of his major intellectual contributions. In his lecture on "The Era of Tyrannies," he claimed that since the ambition of socialism was to articulate two major contradictory tenets--namely emancipation and organization--its outcome could only be chaos ...

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