HIS 2342 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: International Brigades, Popular Front, Spartacus
31 Jan 2018
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Was due to britain losing dominance after wwi. Especially in those that employed many people such as coal. Wanted to give people back purchasing power to stimulate the economy. Gov could make the biggest difference in these industries. Everyone working for the common british good. Better products would be able to be sold abroad. But they needed the liberals to make theses programs happen. Socialist party had been opposed to the war before it happened. Supported some creation of a welfare state. Some working class members were even more radical. Some people pushed for labour politics instead of parliamentary politics. Try to convince the socialist not to divide into communism. Teases out strategic differences between the parties at the time. One of the most important tensions in this time. French socialism must retain its independent character. Emerges from the traditional french republican movement. Communism is a fundamental outcome of the russian revolution and it locally bonded to it.
