Understanding Socialism: Part Two. The Seeds of Socialism.
Unf*cking The Republic
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🗓️ 17 June 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Believe it or not, we’re still not up to Karl Marx because we’re mired in the turn of the 19th Century. Part Two reveals the progenitors of socialist theory toward the end of the Enlightenment era. Charles Fourier, Henri de Saint-Simon and Robert Owen lay the groundwork coming out of the American and French revolutions by imagining new societies and mechanisms of power. In their writings we begin to see the roots of Marxian philosophy and draw upon concepts and experiments that would influence Marx and others during the second industrial revolution.
Resources
The Collector: What do Hegel and Marx Have in Common?
Socialist Alternative: Robert Owen and Utopian Socialism
Encyclopedia of Marxism: Events
Washington State University: Introduction to 19th-Century Socialism | Common Errors in English Usage and More
Howard Zinn: Commemorating Emma Goldman: 'Living My Life'
Stanford: Hegel's Dialectics
The History of Economic Thought: Cesare BeccariaÂ
Stanford: Jeremy Bentham
Foundation for Economic Education: Robert Owen: The Woolly-Minded Cotton Spinner
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 KapitalÂ
Michael Harrington: Socialism: Past and Future
Victor Serge + Natalia Ivanovna Sedova: Life and Death of Leon Trotsky
Anne Sebba: Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy
Bernie Sanders: It’s Ok to Be Angry about Capitalism
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| 0:00.0 | UNFTR |
| 0:03.0 | I gotta say, I'm actually looking forward to getting back into this. |
| 0:08.4 | I'll second that. |
| 0:09.6 | Way more interesting than I thought it was going to be. |
| 0:12.0 | Right? |
| 0:12.4 | I mean, Carl Marx is one of those people you hear about your whole life, but you don't really learn about it in school. |
| 0:17.4 | It's actually kind of shocking that it's taken him this long to unpack Marks. |
| 0:21.1 | Hey, guys, we're actually going to... Right. I mean, a dude literally created socialism. |
| 0:25.5 | You've been dancing around him for three years, but we're finally here. |
| 0:29.0 | Well, okay. Well, the thing is... Carl Freaking Marks. The big guy. Can't wait, Max. Let's go. |
| 0:35.7 | So, funny thing, we're actually not there yet. |
| 0:39.8 | In fact, we're not even touching on Marks at all in this episode. |
| 0:44.5 | This series is never going to end, is it? |
| 0:48.0 | Suddenly, I'm not as excited. |
| 1:00.0 | Did you know what? I'm excited. This is a major podcast and we call it UNFTR. I'm fucking the Republic is the name that is not safe for work. |
| 1:03.5 | We hate Reagan, Milton, Friedman, Rupert Murdoch, and Matt Gaines. |
| 1:06.0 | Talk socioeconomics, global markets, politics, and race. |
| 1:09.0 | Max, the host is basic and admits he likes Miami Vice. |
| 1:12.3 | 99 producers, also, she's a vegan, and she's nice. |
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