"Socialism is, essentially, the tendency inherent in an industrial civilization to transcend the self-regulating market by consciously subordinating it to a democratic society. . . . From the point of view of the community as a whole, socialism is merely the continuation of that endeavor to make society a distinctively human relationship of persons which in Western Europe was always associated with Christian traditions."  
            Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation (1944)

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Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 (excerpts)

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