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Responses to the New Age

Responses to the New Age. Socialism – a political and economic theory of social organization advocating state ownership and control of natural resources and commercial activities. Socialism. Opposite of Laissez faire

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Responses to the New Age

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  1. Responses to the New Age

  2. Socialism – a political and economic theory of social organization advocating state ownership and control of natural resources and commercial activities Socialism

  3. Opposite of Laissez faire • Many workers and intellectuals wanted a complete restructuring of society that would eliminate inhumanity and exploitation • Not jut political, but social and economic

  4. Saint-Simon, Fourier, Owen – utopians (island) • Marx, came later, and saw himself as a scientific socialist • Revolution necessary Early Socialists

  5. Property and wealth corrupts people • No inherent hostility between owner and worker • It was the existing system and private property that was bad • Both should strive for the common good • Social structure had to change with time • No inheritance, public ownership of industry Saint-Simon

  6. No faith in industrial society • Small community away from the rest • Self sufficient, cooperative comminty • Based on agriculture and craftsmanship • Members share equally in life • Paid by dividend, not wages • Be paid by talent and contribution • Create a community that responds to individual needs, not the opposite Charles Fourier

  7. Successful business man • Believed that happy worker was a good worker • Limited hours, schools, health care affordable housing, profit sharing • Environmentalist- change the environment of your workers • Founded a colony in New Harmony, Indiana Robert Owen

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