
Unlocked: Myth of the Month 6: Political Left and Right
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
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Socialism and the Industrial Revolution
After the french revolution, you have a gradual emergence of socialism on the left. And ah, there's a wave of radical unionism with various sort of anarchical, anarchist and socialist unions calling for revolution. You get marxism, right, beginning from mark and his communist allies, and then gradually spreading. So all o these new philosophies that emerged in the wake of the industrial revolution were basically understood to be on theleft. Right? They were. Socialists of various sorts and anarchists and marxis don't all believe the same thing. But they were all understood to be, in some way, on theLeft.
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