Socialist Theories–Class Reader Part.doc

Socialist Theories – Class Reader Part 1 Week 2: Early and Utopian Socialists Friedrich Engels: Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, 1880 Charles Fourier: from Theory of Social Organization, 1820 Proudhon, Pierre Joseph: from What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government, 1840 Week 3: Marx and Engels I Karl Marx: Theses on Feuerbach, 1845 Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels: The Communist Manifesto, 1848 Week 4: Marx and Engels II Karl Marx: The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret thereof; From: The Capital, 1867 Week 5: The rise of socialist parties: Reform or Revolution?, Anarchism Daniel DeLeon: From: Reform or Revolution, 1896 Karl Kautsky: From: The Social Revolution, 1902 Eduard Bernstein: From: Evolutionary Socialism, 1899 Kropotkin: Anarchism; in Encyclopedia Britannica, 1910 Week 6: The Russian Revolution and its aftermaths Lenin: “Democracy” and Dictatorship, 1919 Bucharin: From Programme of the World Revolution, 1918 Georg Lukacs: History Class Consciousness, 1920 Week 7: Socialism between the wars; the antifascist struggle Antonio Gramsci: Speech to the Italian parliament, 1925 Leon Trotsky: From The permanent revolution, 1931 Week 2: Frederick EngelsSocialism: Utopian and Scientific I[The Development of Utopian Socialism] Modern Socialism is, in its essence, the direct product of the recognition, on the one hand, of the class antagonisms existing in the society of today between proprietors and non-proprietors, between capitalists and wage-workers; on the other hand, of the anarchy existing in production. But, in its theoretical form, modern Socialism originally appears ostensibly as a more logical extension of the principles laid down by the great French philosophers of the 18th century. Like every new theory, modern Socialism had, at first, to connect itself with the intellectual stock-in-trade ready to its hand, however deeply its roots lay in material economic facts. The great men, who in France prepared men’s minds fo