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Critically examine the New Deal of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Did he want to introduce a sort of socialism?

  • UPSC 1987
  • World Wars

Facing the collapse of American capitalism after 1929, Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal (1933-39) used unprecedented state intervention to rescue the economy — but whether this amounted to "socialism" remains contested.

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  • The Machinery of the New Deal
  • The Case for Reading it as "Socialism"
  • The Case Against
  • A Reform Within Capitalism

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