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Article: The dream and death of an idea; Socialism across two centuries.(BOOKS)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- April 21, 2002
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Byline: Ronald Radosh, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
There was a time, we are reminded by Joshua Muravchik in "Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism," when the idea of socialism not only seemed to be the wave of the future, but when it appeared so triumphant that in one form or another 60 per cent of the earth's population lived under its domain. Yet by the dawn of the 21st century, what once appeared to be inevitable was swiftly on the way to its complete demise - a discredited ideology in which regimes based on its precepts fared even worse than its critics ever argued they would.
Mr. Muravchik organizes his exploration of socialism in the ...