https://sguzman.github.io/marginalia/tags/socialism/Recent content in Socialism on MarginaliaHugoen-usMon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://sguzman.github.io/marginalia/posts/modern-progressive-marxism/Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://sguzman.github.io/marginalia/posts/modern-progressive-marxism/This report argues that modern progressive politics is a mediated descendant of Marxist and Marx-adjacent socialist traditions. The connection is formalizable through genealogical inheritance and selective adaptation, evidenced by institutional continuities in labor organizations, welfare-state policies, and rhetorical frameworks surrounding class power, redistribution, and anti-monopoly politics.https://sguzman.github.io/marginalia/posts/marxism-bibliography/Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://sguzman.github.io/marginalia/posts/marxism-bibliography/An annotated research guide and reading list of Marxist literature (primary and secondary) from 1840 to 2025, arranged to track both historical development and major thematic currents.https://sguzman.github.io/marginalia/posts/1inventing-socialism/Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://sguzman.github.io/marginalia/posts/1inventing-socialism/A compact research note on the earliest documented uses of “socialism/socialist” in Britain and France (1820-1840), with mini-profiles and comparative analysis of Owenites, Saint-Simonians, Fourierists, and Cabet’s Icarians.https://sguzman.github.io/marginalia/posts/3mutualism/Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://sguzman.github.io/marginalia/posts/3mutualism/A historical and conceptual study of Proudhon&rsquo;s mutualism: property vs possession, the cost principle, mutual banking, and its relationship to cooperative experiments.https://sguzman.github.io/marginalia/posts/christian-socialism-report-request/Sun, 25 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://sguzman.github.io/marginalia/posts/christian-socialism-report-request/Executive Summary In mid‑Victorian Britain, Anglican priests Frederick Denison Maurice and Charles Kingsley pioneered a movement known as “Christian Socialism.” Confronting the upheavals of 1848, they argued that Christianity’s core do…https://sguzman.github.io/marginalia/posts/proudhon-mutualism-report/Sun, 25 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://sguzman.github.io/marginalia/posts/proudhon-mutualism-report/Executive Summary Pierre‐Joseph Proudhon (1809–1865) reconceived socialism as anti‑state and market‐friendly, coining the slogan “property is theft!”(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-JosephProudhon#:~:text=Proudhon%2C%20w" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-JosephProudhon#:~:text=Proudhon%2C%20w</a>…