SocialismOften reduced to "a few idealists' daydreams" without which there would be no subsequent communism. From the beginning of the sixteenth century to the 1930s and 1940s, the idea spread across europe and across the americas, and it was produced with very specific social roots, not in the minds of anyone。
Thinking socialism didn't come out of space
Imagination socialism is not made up by philosophers in jai ri. It was bornCapitalismProduction methods have just replaced the node of the feudal system. From the beginning of the 16th to the 30s and 40s, old smallholder economies and handicrafts were falling apart, and new class relations were taking shapeHistoryThe window is critical of the first wave of the new system。
Before capitalism emerged, plato, aristotle described the ideal country, the ancient chinese said "the same world", and there were communal legends in christianity. These ideas, however, are based on extremely low productivity conditions, based on a vague memory that is common to all, and that is completely different in nature from the later design of a system with clear class analysis and systematic criticism of capitalist exploitation。
Capital forces farmers and artisans to become unproductive
In the henry viii era, britain added harsher provisions to the old law: for the first time a strong vagrant has been caught, he will be whipped and imprisoned. In utopia, merle wrote "the eater of the sheep", which is about the true process of circular movement driving farmers out of the land. Max simply said that this deprivation of history was written in the history of humanity with blood and fire。
The polarization between artisans and farmers has accelerated, with the two forces nouvelles, assets and non-productors, on the historic stage. It was a historic advance that the labour force did break free from feudal dependency; however, immediately after that, it fell into capitalist hiring, ostensibly free, and was in fact exploited cheaply, less free than during the feudal era and less harmonious in society。
The new shackles after the french revolution are deeper than the old ones
In 1789, the french revolution overthrew feudal relations and the bourgeois class formally took power. After the revolution, however, the general public found that political rights had not really been obtained and that the economic situation was worse. The new society of reason, freedom and equality that the enlighteners had painted had become in reality an extremely disappointing sarcasm, completely contrary to the prophecy。
Against this background, there is a growing demand from the proletarian class for change. The communist manifesto states that the bourgeois, in the place of domination, have shattered all feudal, patriarchal and pedagogy relations and replaced them with naked interests. The old order is gone, the new order is not a way out for the bottom people, and it is in this vacuum that imaginary socialism grows。
The workers who hit the machine were premature but opened the door
The early proletariats did not understand the exploitative nature of capitalism and felt that factories and machines were the root cause of poverty, and simply destroyed machines and burned factories. Engus made it clear that premature theory corresponds to premature capitalist production and premature class conditions. Such instinctive resistance is indeed childish, but the beginning of the struggle of the proletariat against the bourgeois has begun。
These workers and craftsmen are eager to improve their living conditions, but are not theoretically armed and can only hope for programmes from a talented figure. Imagination socialism fills this cognitive gap by telling people that "the present system is bad and can be good in the future" and that, while it does not indicate a concrete path to implementation, it gives at least an early worker a sense of direction and emotional exit。
How did you get from plato to merle
Early imaginary socialism is not starting from scratch. It draws inspiration from the works of plato, aristotle, from christian legends, and from the stories of the great discoveries. From their reading of the description of indigenous peoples'shared productive resources, shared labour and equally distributed lives, merle has been inspired to write the common island of utopia。
After merle, the phantom socialists of moleri, mabri, and babev all added their own observations to the existing intellectual material. The vast geographical discoveries of the 17th to 18th century have brought with them a wealth of first-hand information about the american, african and primitive communities, and these travels and reports have become a repository of material for their design of the "ideal nation" and have given a concrete reference to the imagination of imaginary socialism。
The enlightenment built the theoretical skeletons of imaginary socialism
The 18th century french enlightenment not only prepared public opinion for the bourgeois revolution, but also directly shaped a socialist discourse. In the books of jean meier, molari, mabley and babiff, "rational" "equal" "equal" "justice" "harmonious" appears repeatedly, apparently borrowed from voltaire, rousseau, and deedro。
In socialism's science of thought, engus directly points out that the doctrine of the three imaginary socialists, in its theoretical form, is a further and more thorough development of the principles advanced by the original french scholars of the eighteenth century. After the creation of scientific socialism, the system of "irritation" became less influential, but its critical heritage and institutional assumptions constituted a pre-theological history of communism。
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