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Social Change

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Whatever their persuasion [communitarian, Marxist, Christian], all Socialists regarded the opposition of self and society as a false one, reflecting the prevailing ethic of greed and domination. All envisioned an end, really a return to the beginning, in the form either of a perfect community, or the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, or the cooperative commonwealth, each the realization of the promise of America (Fried, 1970, p. 3).

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Stone, W.F., Schaffner, P.E. (1988). Social Change. In: The Psychology of Politics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3830-0_11

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