Recent years have seen a massive growth of interest in socialism, particularly among young people.
Cannon, Leon Trotsky, Malcolm X, Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Maurice Bishop, and Nelson Mandela..
About author(s): Mike Taber has edited and prepared a number of books related to the history of revolutionary and working-class movements--from collections of documents of the Communist International Under Lenin to works by James P.
This book is the first English-language collection ever assembled of all the Resolutions adopted by congresses of the Second International in its Marxist years.
Many of the topics dealt with--war and militarism, immigration, trade unions and labor legislation, women \'s rights, colonialism, Socialist strategy and tactics--remain just as relevant today.
Despite weaknesses and contradictions that led to the Second International \'s collapse in 1914, its Resolutions during these years remain a resource for those studying the Socialist movement \'s history and objectives.
From 1889 to 1912 Resolutions of the Second International helped disseminate and popularize a revolutionary aim: the overturn of capitalism and its replacement by the democratic rule of the working class, as a first step toward socialism.
For this reason, an appreciation of the Second International--often called the Socialist International--during its Marxist years is particularly relevant.
But few are fully aware of socialism \'s revolutionary history.
Recent years have seen a massive growth of interest in socialism, particularly among young people
