Figures
1 Socialism: a concept defining both theory and practice 1
2 Socialism: a concept defining both authentic and ersatz theory and practice 13
3 Visualizing 20th-century patriarchy west of the Iron Curtain 18
4 Visualizing 20th-century patriarchy east of the Iron Curtain 19
5 Layered textualism: the close reading method used in Socialism: the 100-Year-Old Misnomer 29
6 “Long live the Council of Workmen’s and Soldiers’ Deputees!”—Revolutionary slogan and visual motif 67
7 Abraham Bosse, frontispiece to Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan (1651) 80
8 A visual paraphrase of the branches of government, synthesizing Hobbes’ absolutism with Locke’s division of power 84
9 The ersatz socialist economy: a visual interpretation 104
10 The capitalist market economy: a visual interpretation 106
11 Presidential votes and voting-eligible population (VEP) share by candidate, 2008–2024 167
12 Percentage of the voting-eligible population (VEP) voting for the winning presidential candidate, 2008–2024 168
Maps
1 Countries behind the Iron Curtain 24
2 The Soviet Union or U.S.S.R. 26
Tables
1 Czechoslovakian people living in poverty (1958–1988) 113