Monday, Sept. 27: Reformers and Revolutionaries in Late 19th Century America


I. Capitalism Defended — conservative social Darwinism

II. Capitalism Reformed — reform social Darwinism & the Social Gospel Movement

III. Capitalism Attacked — American socialism and Edward Bellamy
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Herbert Spencer, William Graham Sumner, Henry George, Lester Frank Ward, New Economists, Social Gospel Movement, Washington Gladden, Walter Rauschenbusch, Christian Socialism, Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward, Francis Bellamy, Nationalism and Nationalist Clubs, Marxian Socialism, Democratic Socialism, Eugene V. Debs, syndicalism