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Industrial Impact on Modern Thought

Industrial Impact on Modern Thought. Thomas Malthus. a classical theorist who developed an economic explanation for population growth. adopted a very negative outlook for the working class. Population will outstrip food supply and people will starve. Essay on the Principle of Population.

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Industrial Impact on Modern Thought

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  1. Industrial Impact on Modern Thought

  2. Thomas Malthus • a classical theorist who developed an economic explanation for population growth. • adopted a very negative outlook for the working class. • Population will outstrip food supply and people will starve. • Essay on the Principle of Population

  3. David Ricardo • a classical economist who extended Malthusian philosophy into workplace. • Principles of Political Philosophy • “Iron law of wages” • Supported employers and provided a “scientific” argument against labor unions.

  4. Claude Henri de Saint-Simon • French Aristocrat who was sympathetic to the French Revolution. • Society required rational management, not free market. • Private property, wealth and means of production must be regulated by the gov’t. • Few supporters in pre-industrial France.

  5. Robert Owen • British industrialist turned early socialist. • Positive belief in capacities of human beings (if given right circumstances) • Tried to create “utopian” societies within his factory. • Found new harmony in business, but no business in New Harmony.

  6. Charles Fourier • A French version of Robert Owens. • Sought to rid boredom from the workers experience. • Ignored the order of the Industrial society, in favor of “free market” living.

  7. Friedrich Engels • Middle-class son of a textile factory owner. • Met Karl Marx while in Great Britain. • The Conditions of the Working Class (1845) • Helped Marx with The Communist Manifesto • "Such is the Old Town of Manchester, and on re-reading my description, I am forced to admit that instead of being exaggerated, it is far from black enough to convey a true impression of the filth, ruin, and uninhabitableness, the defiance of all considerations of cleanliness, ventilation, and health which characterise the construction of this single district, containing at least twenty to thirty thousand inhabitants. And such a district exists in the heart of the second city of England, the first manufacturing city of the world.”

  8. Karl Marx • Born in the Confederation of the Rhine (1818). • Became radicalized at University of Berlin. • Exiled to Paris – then Brussels – then London. • Das Kapital (1867) and The Communist Manifesto(1848) • Synthesized works of Hegel, earlier socialists and classical economists into theory about the nature of class conflict.

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