Understanding Socialism: Part Three. The “Critique Phase” (1825–1870).

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🗓️ 18 July 2023

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Summary

We have the third installment in our socialism series, where we resume our journey beginning in 1825 and the collapse of Robert Owen’s New Harmony experiment. This next chapter introduces the work of John Stuart Mill and Karl Marx and touches on Mikhail Bakunin and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, both of whom we’ll explore more fully in Part Four. Not gonna lie, this series may never end. But this is a critical piece of the puzzle that we’re calling the “Critique Period,” lasting from 1825 to around 1870. This era is punctuated by widespread revolts in 1848 that inform some of the new thinking around capitalism and the plight of the working class—all leading into the explosion of socialist philosophy that hits the mainstream consciousness following the events of 1870 (again, for Part Four).

Chapters

Intro: 00:01:07

Chapter Six: Revolutionary Conditions. 00:07:54

Chapter Seven: Marx and Mill. 00:18:42

Post Show Musings: 00:38:17

Book Love: 00:38:44

Outro: 00:53:41

Book Love

Joseph A. Schumpeter: Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy

John M. Thompson: Revolutionary Russia, 1917

Bernard Harcourt: Critique and Praxis

Ray Ginger: The Bending Cross: A Biography of Eugene Victor Debs

Karl Marx: The Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx: Das Kapital

Michael Harrington: Socialism: Past and Future

Victor Serge + Natalia Ivanovna Sedova: Life and Death of Leon Trotsky

Anne Sebba: Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy

Resources

The Collector: What do Hegel and Marx Have in Common?

Socialist Alternative: Robert Owen and Utopian Socialism

Marxists.org: Encyclopedia of Marxism: Events

Washington State University: Introduction to 19th-Century Socialism

Howard Zinn: Commemorating Emma Goldman: 'Living My Life'

Stanford: Hegel's Dialectics

The History of Economic Thought: Cesare Beccaria

Stanford: Jeremy Bentham

Foundation for Economic Education: Robert Owen: The Woolly-Minded Cotton Spinner

Stanford: Karl Marx

Central European Economic and Social History: Economic Development In Europe In The 19th Century

Marxists.org: Encyclopedia of Marxism

The New Yorker: Karl Marx, Yesterday and Today

Marxists.org: Glossary of Organisations

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0:00.0	The development of Marxism is uneven. In some cases, it surges forward, then it fades. Often when it
0:07.5	fades, the people who don't like it, imagine it's disappeared, only to reappear once again,
0:12.9	because it's a kind of shadow of capitalism. It's capitalism's most profound criticism.
0:20.4	And so it lasts and revitalizes itself, much as capitalism does.
0:27.1	It's kind of the shadow.
0:30.3	This is the story of a political pundit who looked at the world around him and just said,
0:36.8	fuck it. Gives the middle finger to authority and says kiss my ass but instead of a revolution he started a podcast just what the world needs
0:47.1	started a podcast another basic white guy who started a podcast but it's fun because he curses.
0:54.8	All through the podcast.
0:56.4	On a fucking the republic.
0:58.3	It's a motherfucking podcast.
0:59.9	Podcast.
1:04.0	In part one of our series, we set the table for a lengthy discussion about one of the most
1:12.5	amorphous political, economic, and social concepts in history. To illustrate this, we began with
1:18.1	the words of our audience, whom we asked to describe socialism as succinctly as possible.
1:22.7	The answers were as diverse as they were thoughtful, and it truly set the tone for the series.
1:28.4	We offered some of the more dubious modern claims about socialist theory from mainstream mouthpieces,
1:33.2	talked about the importance of Bernie Sanders in normalizing concepts associated with modern socialism
1:38.2	in the United States, and introduced some of the key concepts and vocabulary most commonly used
1:44.1	in socialist economic theory.
1:46.0	Then, in part two, we went back to the origins of socialist theory
1:50.0	by looking at the bridge between the Enlightenment period and the modern era,
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