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Unlike pre-modern communism, utopian and romantic socialism presented a modern critique of the capitalist economy, and contained elements of the modern conception of socialism. However, since they were sustained by nebulous utopian ideas and by the idealised image of a past agricultural society, they could not specify the actual agents of the socialist transformation of an industrial capitalist society. Therefore they could not for long remain the mainstream of modern socialism.
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Itoh, M. (1995). Modern Socialism. In: Political Economy for Socialism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24018-0_2
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