Heaven on Earth: The Rise, Fall, and Afterlife of Socialism Audiobook (Free)

Socialism was man’s most ambitious attempt to supplant religious beliefs with a doctrine claiming to ground itself in ‘science.’ Each failure to produce societies of abundance or give delivery to ‘the New Guy’ inspired even more searching for the path to the promised land: trend, communes, interpersonal democracy, communism, fascism, Arab socialism, African socialism. non-e worked, and some exacted a staggering human toll. After that, after two decades of wishful thinking and bitter disappointment, socialism imploded about Heaven on Earth: The Rise, Fall, and Afterlife of Socialism inside a fin de siecle episode of falling walls and collapsing regimes. It was an astonishing denouement but what adopted was no less astonishing. Following the hiatus of several decades, brand-new voices were elevated, as though innocent of most that had come before, proposing to check it out yet again.

Joshua Muravchik traces the quest for this phantasm, presenting sketches of the thinkers and leaders who developed the theory, led it to power, and presided more than its collapse, as well as those who are trying to revive it today. Heaven on Earth is a tale filled with personality and event which at the same time provides us an epic chronicle of the movement that attempted to carefully turn the world upside down-and for a time succeeded.