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Article: Building a workers' republic: Charles A. Beard's critique of liberalism in the 1930s.
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- September 22, 1997
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Charles Beard's sympathizers have correctly dismissed conservative claims that he was a Marxist, but they have often substituted the equally misleading claim that he was a forebearer of mainstream liberalism in the post-New Deal United States. In the 1930s Beard developed a blueprint for a "workers' republic" that went far beyond the bounds of welfare liberalism or New Deal economic policy. Beard's proposals for constitutional reform envision a post-capitalist economic republic anchored in the creation of new forms of social property, the adjustment and redefinition of other property rights, and a mix of expert planning and political accountability that would maintain ...
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Dictionary definition: Beard, Charles
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