POL 307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Working Poor, Scientific Socialism

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 307
• Professor: Sylvia Thompson

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So complete was the union of individuals with the group that the value of their accomplishments would be measured by the amount of benefit the society derived from them. Babeuf was deeply influenced by rousseau"s ideas: francois-noel babeuf (1760-1797, known as the founder of socialism, as he advocated seizing possessions of the wealthy and redistributing them. Lived during the early stages of the french revolution: (istory"s first socialist. A visionary who recognized that the revolution would fall short of its radical goals of (cid:498)liberty, Equality, and fraternity(cid:499) (cid:523)a phrase from rousseau"s writing(cid:524) Called for another revolution, one that would create social justice for the common person. Babeuf did not live long enough to make more than a momentary impact on the left win go the. Three founders of this class: claude henri saint-simon (1760-1825), robert owen (1771- momentum passed to a far less radical group (babeuf"s violent approach to socialism became.