Understanding Socialism: Part Three. The “Critique Phase” (1825–1870).
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Revolutionary Conditions and the Context of Socialist Thought
Explore the overlapping relationships and collaborations among the socialist theorists of the critique period, and understand how the revolutionary advancements in Europe shaped their observations and writings.
We have the third installment in our socialism series, where we resume our journey beginning in 1825 and the collapse of Robert Owen’s New Harmony experiment. This next chapter introduces the work of John Stuart Mill and Karl Marx and touches on Mikhail Bakunin and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, both of whom we’ll explore more fully in Part Four. Not gonna lie, this series may never end. But this is a critical piece of the puzzle that we’re calling the “Critique Period,” lasting from 1825 to around 1870. This era is punctuated by widespread revolts in 1848 that inform some of the new thinking around capitalism and the plight of the working class—all leading into the explosion of socialist philosophy that hits the mainstream consciousness following the events of 1870 (again, for Part Four).
Chapters
Intro: 00:01:07
Chapter Six: Revolutionary Conditions. 00:07:54
Chapter Seven: Marx and Mill. 00:18:42
Post Show Musings: 00:38:17
Book Love: 00:38:44
Outro: 00:53:41
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
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
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