Socialism: Origins, Expansion, Decline, and the Attempted Revival in the United States by Phillip J. BrysonSocialism is all about the economics of socialist society, how it is organized and functions. It is over 900 pages because it addresses all aspects of socialism. It first addresses the original ideas in socialism’s history, including the eras before and after Karl Marx. It also investigates the countries that have adopted socialist or Marxist-Leninist theories – the Soviet Union, the bloc countries, India and China. It reviews the attempt to establish socialist economies in the democratic countries of Western Europe in the century after Marx, down to its ultimate disappearance in the form of a functioning economy. Finally, it investigates socialism in the United States, discussing the reasons why it always failed at the ballot box; Franklin D. Roosevelt introduced a number of socialist policies and those were revisited with the presidency of Barack Obama. One can laud the good intentions of socialists. But this book explains why socialism has never succeeded and why it cannot succeed in the United States.In 1961 I was living in Berlin when the wall was built! I saw the concrete, the barbed wire, and read of the people shot trying to escape over the barricades.I went home to the United States to continue my studies, hoping to find out why a country must build a wall to keep its people from fleeing. I took courses in Marxism as an undergraduate, and studied comparative economic systems, then went on for a PhD in economics at Ohio State. I became a Professor at the University of Arizona where I taught economic systems, and international trade and finance. Twenty years later I transferred to the Marriott School at Brigham Young University. Over that forty plus years of my career I always researched socialist systems, spent sabbaticals and research time living in West Berlin, in communist East Berlin (Karlshorst), and in Marburg, Munich, and Duisburg Germany, Vienna, London, and Moscow.In November of 1989 I attended a conference in West Berlin on German Unification in the 1800s. During the week of the conference, the Politbuero pronounced the Wall open. So I was present at the construction of the wall and almost thirty years later for the opening and the subsequent demise of the Wall.https://www.pageturner.us/bookstore/socialismhttps://brysonknowssocialism.com/www.socialismsissuesrevealed.comhttp://www.bluefunkbroadcasting.com/root/twia/42723pt1.mp3