HIS109Y1 Lecture Notes - Main Source, Flora Tristan, Utopian Socialism
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Before marx systemizes socialism, precursors to organized, working-class groups (utopian socialism, idealistic, impractical) Utopian socialists, focused on the social question (reforming living conditions & social conditions) sought to address concerns of the working pool. Believed reform had to be targeted to the conditions of people in bad working & living situation. Human cooperation is better than competition that characterizes industrial capitalism. Early socialism was based on idiosyncratic, utopian, idealistic thinkers that wanted to come up w/ better models that would improve the lives of the working-class. Didn"t call for consciousness of working-class to drive politics, wanted to come up w/ system diff. from liberalism. People arguing against private property, competition, in favour of new systems of socialization. Socialists wanted a society focused on cooperation & social reform (meaningful changes to living conditions) Socialism system of thought focused on the social question.
