A Homegrown School of Thought, Socialism: Applied Transcendentalism? John Brown, Mike Gold and the appeal to Natural Law

Abstract

Socialism in America is like transcendentalism; they are all American schools of thought. They arose in the context of America. The relationship between changes in the environment, changes in the way people live and worship, and in the way they work influence the way thinkers think of or view the world. Therefore, new arguments arise to deal with the changes, and other theories adjust themselves to accommodate these changes. Some ideas feed off one another to create new themes or the recurrences of certain themes. Such a relationship of ideas exists in John Brown’s transcendentalism and Mike Gold's socialism.