POLS 213 - Socialism & Its Critics

4 credit(s)
A survey of historical and contemporary socialist ideas and movements from the Bible and Plato to the contemporary period, including a survey of utopian socialist, Marxist, anarchist, communist, and social democratic variants of the socialist ideal. Also includes critiques of different forms of socialist thought from within the socialist tradition itself as well as from liberal and conservative critics of socialism.

Core Requirement(s): Counts toward core requirement: Analyzing and Interpreting Texts.