writer 0 2009-08-09T10:55:00Z 0 For much of the 19th and 20th century, socialism was the hope of millions of working people around the globe, including the United States in the early part of the 20th century. This was the period of the growth of the Socialist Party and the Industrial Workers of the World, the IWW. Socialism has meant a society committed to meeting the basic needs of all people including health, food, education, and housing , where there is no poverty and full employment, where enterprises and firms are socially and publicly owned not privately owned by capitalists to make profits. It has meant a society where workers control how firms are run and where the economy is democratically planned to serve human needs. As a great socialist revolutionary, Rosa Luxemburg said in the early 20th century, socialism requires democracy, and democracy requires socialism. Peter 59976 true 2009-08-03T06:34:35Z Bohmer 0 22199 0 1 21st Century Venezuela venezuela-socialism-for-the-21st-century-by-peter-bohmer none 2009-09-25T16:48:03Z 29