HIST 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Friedrich Engels, Utopian Socialism, Primitive Communism
2 Oct 2017
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This week: liberalism and socialism: general features of the first half of the 19th century, need to restore peace and stability, political and social changes, birth of modern ideologies, socialism, nationalism, liberalism, conservatism (not covered) Liberalism: heritage of the enlightenment, french revolution liberty, demand for constitutional representational government (where were the constitutional governments established in europe?, middle-class ideology. Liberal economic theories in britain: adam smith: economic individualism, laissez-faire, free competition and free trade, invisible hand, proper role of the state, negative (cid:272)onsequen(cid:272)es of the . Liberalism and socialism: like liberalism, socialism originated from the enlightenment and the. French revolution: liberals: freedom; socialists: equality, liberals: everyone has equal opportunity-myth of social mobility (samuel smiles, working class disenfranchised from political process. Marx and socialism: industrial revolution created two antagonistic classes: the bourgeoisie (rich) and the proletariat (working class, most vigorous critics of the bourgeois society socialists.
