From: http://www.wired.com/culture/culturereviews/magazine/17-06/nep_newsocialism?currentPage=all
Socialism:
A History
Socialism:
A History
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1516
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Thomas More's Utopia
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1794
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Thomas Paine's The Age of Reason
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1825
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First US commune
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1848
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Marx & Engels' The Communist Manifesto
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1864
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International Workingmen's Association
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1903
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Bolshevik Party elects Lenin
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1917
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Russian Revolution
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1922
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Stalin consolidates power
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1946
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State-run health care in Saskatchewan
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1959
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Cuban Revolution
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1967
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Che Guevara executed
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1973
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Salvador Allende deposed
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1980
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Usenet
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1985
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Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost
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1991
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Soviet Union dissolves
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1994
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Linux 1.0
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1998
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Venezuela elects Hugo Chavez
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1999
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Blogger.com
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2000
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Google: 1 billion indexed pages
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2001
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Wikipedia
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2002
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Brazil elects Lula da Silva
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2003
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Public Library of Science
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2004
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Digg
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2005
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Amazon's Mechanical Turk
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2006
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Twitter
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2008
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Facebook: 100 million users
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2008
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US allocates $700 billion for troubled mortgage assets
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2009
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YouTube: 100 million monthly US users
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–
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Comments 1
Suresh,
An interesting timeline and article. Kevin Kelly's been writing quite a bit about an evolving global consciousness and a move to what he has called "Socialism 2.0".
You can find quite a bit more (from a less political, more technological perspective) on a section of his website: The Technium
He's been kind enough to allow me to post links to several of my pieces on these issues which is becoming helpful. My concern with the synthesis of, on one side the Adam Smith/Ayn Rand Individualist approach (actually Adam Smith is largely misinterpreted) vs the Marxist Collectivist ideal revolves around problems which have arose in attempted applications of both.
Neither form can function as a pure form in practice and both have led to oligarchy because neither a pure Individualist nor Collectivist design is practical… and both fail to address inherent characteristics of social networks. My work is in resolving this dilemma which I believe has it's roots in the foundations of human biological/social evolution… especially issues regarding proximity (including but not only physical), concepts regarding natural human community size and the specific nature and limitations of biological altruism in actual application.
I've been off the anthropology scene ever since refusing my student deferment way back in the late 60's because I thought it was elitist, refusing induction after being drafted and then pretty much chucking the establishment for a very eclectic and interesting life…
Realizations over the last several years have brought me back. I believe I'm staggering into the area of exploration required for the needed practical synthesis. The Commons Owned Individually-controlled/Commons-dedicated Account is a practical application of these developing ideas.
I'm slowly laying out these principles if any are interested… (and happily quite a few are!).
How would hunter-gatherers run the world? (pssst… They Do!)
Ayn Rand & Alan Greenspan: The Altruism Fly in the Objectivist Ointment
Compensation & the Social Network
The Foundations of Authoritarianism
…and others.
The importance of the social network can't be overestimated. Having been a bit of an intellectual hermit for a while, I'm finding it does take a bit of tenacity to be taken seriously… Maybe the Dick Cheney's were right… "take the student deferment and join the stagnant paradigm as an expert!" I just couldn't do it. But I am for real.
P.S. Your proposal outline looks great! Let me know if my project holds any interest. I'm definitely NOT a good organizer… however I'm one hell of a proselytizer for things I believe in.
Tom Crowl
Civilization Systems LLC
CulturalEngineer@gmail.com
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