PP203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: John Stuart Mill, Negative Income Tax, Progressive Tax
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1836 u of berlin - gives up law for philosophy, discovers hegel. 1841 phd thesis, u of jena - the difference between the democritean and. Marx seen as father of communism, which killed tens of millions in 20th cen. 4 influences - utopian socialism, german philosophy (hegel), british economics, *plato"s guardians - had property and children in common - economic equality and political elitism (opposite of liberal capitalism) *thomas more, utopia (1516) - no private property, meals in common. *many tried to set up communes as kind of voluntary extended family - these include protestant radicals, and charles fourier"s phalanstery of 1600. *robert owen, idealistic textile factory owner - tried to set up a model socialist community in new harmony, indiana (1824) - it failed within 4 years. Marx"s significance: (1) as young hegelian philosopher of history (early marx) (2) as critic of capitalism (later marx) Not as inventor of communism, not as theorist of justice.
