Download or read book Socialism written by Zygmunt Bauman and published by New York : Holmes & Meier Publishers. This book was released on 1976 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing that 'utopian' is frequently used as a pejorative term used to discredit whatever it describes, this title describes the positive contributions of the utopian tradition to theories of society and especially stresses the important contribution of socialism to the history of utopian thought.