Understanding Socialism: Part Five. 1871 to 1917. Revolutionary Divide.
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The Fractures of Socialist Movements
This chapter explores the importance of analyzing where socialist movements break apart and how capitalism erodes the foundational tenets of socialism. It highlights the role of nationalism in dividing the working class and discusses the tension between practical politics and revolutionary ideology.
This is technically the final installment of our series “Understanding Socialism” where we cover the period between the Paris Commune in 1871 and onset of World War I, which precedes (and leads to) the Russian Revolution in 1917. We’re going to cover the Russian Revolution briefly in an epilogue that speaks to the divergence from classical Marxism from the Revolution forward and where socialist movements stand today. This final episode brings new figures into the spotlight such as Karl Kautsky and Rosa Luxemburg and crosses the pond to introduce the likes of Emma Goldman and Eugene Debs.
Chapters
Intro: 00:02:05
Chapter Ten: 00:07:16
Chapter Eleven: 00:22:43
Chapter Twelve: 00:50:52
Book Love
Joseph A. Schumpeter: Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy
John M. Thompson: Revolutionary Russia, 1917
Bernard Harcourt: Critique and Praxis
Ray Ginger: The Bending Cross: A Biography of Eugene Victor Debs
Karl Marx: The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx: Das Kapital
Michael Harrington: Socialism: Past and Future
Victor Serge + Natalia Ivanovna Sedova: Life and Death of Leon Trotsky
Anne Sebba: Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy
Peter Kropotkin: The Conquest of Bread
Staughton Lynd + Andrej Grubačic: Wobblies and Zapatistas: Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism, and Radical History
Emma Goldman: Anarchism and Other Essays
Anthony J. Nocella II, Mark Seis and Jeff Shantz: Classic Writings in Anarchist Criminology: A Historical Dismantling of Punishment and Domination.
Resources
The Collector: What do Hegel and Marx Have in Common?
Socialist Alternative: Robert Owen and Utopian Socialism
Marxists.org: Encyclopedia of Marxism: Events
Washington State University: Introduction to 19th-Century Socialism
Howard Zinn: Commemorating Emma Goldman: 'Living My Life'
Stanford: Hegel's Dialectics
The History of Economic Thought: Cesare Beccaria
Stanford: Jeremy Bentham
Foundation for Economic Education: Robert Owen: The Woolly-Minded Cotton Spinner
Stanford: Karl Marx
Central European Economic and Social History: Economic Development In Europe In The 19th Century
Marxists.org: Encyclopedia of Marxism
The New Yorker: Karl Marx, Yesterday and Today
Marxists.org: Glossary of Organisations
Northwestern Whitepaper: The Second Industrial Revolution
The Collector: Revolutions of 1848
Chemins de Mémoire: Franco-Prussian War of 1870
Journal of Modern History: 1870 in European History and Historiography
JSTOR: Paul Avrich: The Legacy of Bakunin
Marxists.org: Bakunin
The Anarchist Library: The Federative Principle
The Anarchist Library: Property Is Theft
The Collector: What do Hegel and Marx Have in Common?
Socialist Alternative: Robert Owen and Utopian Socialism
Marxists.org: Encyclopedia of Marxism: Events
Washington State University: Introduction to 19th-Century Socialism | Common Errors in English Usage and More
Howard Zinn: Commemorating Emma Goldman: 'Living My Life'
Stanford: Hegel's Dialectics
The History of Economic Thought: Cesare Beccaria
Stanford: Jeremy Bentham
Foundation for Economic Education: Robert Owen: The Woolly-Minded Cotton Spinner
Stanford: Karl Marx
Central European Economic and Social History: Economic Development In Europe In The 19th Century
Marxists.org: Encyclopedia of Marxism
The New Yorker: Karl Marx, Yesterday and Today
Marxists.org: Glossary of Organisations
Northwestern Whitepaper: The Second Industrial Revolution
The Collector: Revolutions of 1848
Chemins de Mémoire: Franco-Prussian War of 1870
Journal of Modern History: 1870 in European History and Historiography
Jacobin: Why Kautsky was Right
The New Yorker: Dreyfus Affair
The Jacobin: John Dewey
Marxists.org: Anarchism and Anarcho-Syndicalism
Spartacus Ed: Karl Kautsky
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