UGC 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Intentional Community, Scientific Socialism, Feudalism
24 Mar 2016
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In the new era dominated by conservative monarchies, radicals, liberals, utopian socialists, nationalists, abolitionists, and religious leaders organized to create a better world. Restoration and resistance: the social and political unrest between 1815 and 1848, the restoration period, stemmed from the ambiguous legacies of the french revolution and the. France, and the low countries, liberals had great influence. Socialists and communists were concerned about the inequalities produced by industrial capitalism. They argued that the whole free-market economy had to be transformed to save human beings from self-destruction, not just the state. Ordinary workers, artisans, domestic servants, and women in manufacturing joined radical prophets in staging strikes, riots, peasant rebellions, and protests to campaign for economic, social, and political equality. Charles fourier (1772-1837) and his utopian socialism was the most visionary of all alternative movements. Fourier, former cloth trader, thought of himself as the scientific prophet of a new utopian world created through organization rather than bloodshed.
