HIS109Y1 Lecture Notes - Democratic Socialism, Class Consciousness, Scientific Socialism
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Marx thought that the original socialism was unpractical that he wanted to dismiss it, that they were a bunch of utopians . He wanted to create the true socialism, the scientific socialism. These people are not working class people, A system of thought focused on the social. Did put some of charles" ideas to action. Natural goodness; would be reviled if not in competition but in a cooperative society. Opposite of adam smith"s ideas; pursuing self interest causes the common good where owen says that the natural good can"t come through self interest but in cooperation. He built a model community took a squalid factory town, a typical factory town, and through building the community he turned it into a flourishing, thriving community. Business is served better when the owners treat the workers as well as the machines. Louis blanc fits in the early modern of socialist ideas. Move away from the purely theoretical and idealistic to something more practical.
