They should look at North Korea -- the ultimate "socialist utopia." I recently interviewed Charles Ryu, who escaped North Korea and made it to China.

To combat the rise of communism following the October 1917 Russian Revolution, the Fabian leaders Sydney and Beatrice Webb in November that year drafted Clause Four of Labour’s constitution ...

Socialism is also superior, says Pendleton, because of “the 90% to 100% home-ownership rates.” “One hundred percent,” of course, is just dumb, but China (if you believe the party’s ...

Review of Democracy in Power: A History of Electrification in the United States by Sandeep Vaheesan (University of Chicago Press, 2024) What do socialists mean when they call for economic democracy?

In 1917 Sidney Webb drafted the euphonious Clause IV of the Labour constitution, which committed the party to the public ownership of the commanding heights of the economy when it was approved the ...

Webb, now 87, had long ago (1929) overcome his aversion to titles of nobility and reluctantly consented to become Baron Passfield (though the late Beatrice refused to become Lady Passfield).

This is the story I wanted to hear. Beatrice came close to marrying Joseph Chamberlain but feared being dominated by him. By contrast Sidney gave Beatrice the space to flourish individually.

IT IS impossible to understand the essence of the Soviet system without constantly keeping in mind Lenin's psychology. In 1905 Lenin had dreamed and planned a revolution achieved by a minority group ...

A century ago, on January 22, 1924, a newspaper placard in London announced: “Lenin dead (official). Ramsay MacDonald Premier.” MacDonald was the first leader of the Labour Party and avowed socialist ...

As a former public high school teacher, I am not surprised that most young Americans have a warped view of socialism. For example, according to a poll conducted in 2019, 70 percent of Millennials and ...

Both books do, however, draw on some of the many female voices behind the scenes, including Beatrice Webb, Dolly Ponsonby and journalist Mary Agnes Hamilton. The 1924 Housing Act, enabling the ...

Beatrice Webb, one of the founders of the Fabian Society, characterised the conflict as one between Arab “natives” and Jewish exploiters possessed of “superior wealth”.