PHL267H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Economic And Philosophic Manuscripts Of 1844, Wage Labour, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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The age of dickens (1837-1870): industrialization; growing class of workers; urban poverty. Political conflicts between conservatives, liberals, and radicals. Revolutions of 1848 (sicily, france, german states, denmark, ); ends for the most part in conservative retrenchment: some reforms in some places, but mostly the conservatives retake power. Socialist writers in england and france (e. g. , owen, fourier, Hegelian thought predominates among german intellectuals: basic pattern of his thought is highly influential. 1839-1842 -- earns doctorate in philosophy; influenced by left- wing young hegelians ; meets engels; pursues writing and editing an opposition newspaper. 1843-1844 marries; marx"s paper is censored; resigns as editor; moves to paris; meets proudhon and other french socialists; charged by prussian government with treason; writes 1844. 1844-1848 banished from paris, moves to brussels; collaborates with engels; participates in congress of the communist league ; writes communist manifesto with engels.
