Is Socialism a Worldview?

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[306] The second requirement is: make humanity capable of universal goal setting and the solidary exercise towards the goals established. World history still present the eerie image - to adapt a comparison made by H. G. Wells - of desperate children who, enclosed in a cage on a cart, are rolling towards an abyss.

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Date: 1921-1922 (written at Helmstreitmüle)
Original Draft: “Ist Sozialismus eine Weltanschauung?
KPA: 02/16 + 03/03
Recent Publication in English: “On Freedom“ in POLANYI 2018, p. 298-319
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FR « Est-ce que le socialisme implique une vision du monde ? »