Socialism
10 Truths About Socialism
Coral Ridge Ministries
p18-19 On the other side of the Atlantic, the Rousseauean vision of man as perfectable in a collective state took hold. The French Revolution (1789) was a revolt not only against capitalism and royalty, but was also an anti-Christian revolution that soon turned on it's own, with guillotines dispatching first the privileged and then anyone thought to be insufficiently revolutionary. The revolution was supposed to usher in an Age of Reason, but instead fomented the chaos that allowed Napoleon to take ultimate power and to plunge Europe into war.
Various utopian, anarchist, and socialist thinkers dominated French philosophy during the nineteenth century, paving the way for a German, Karl Marx, who co-authored The Communist Manifesto (1847), which condemned free markets, capitalism, and "inequality." Marx predicted that the "masses" would overthrow governments and create a "dictatorship of the proletariat," beginning in the industrialized nations. The state would eventually fade away into a "classless society" as men became altruistic.
In 1848 and 1849, anarchists and socialists launched failed revolutions in Europe. Marx's vision of an international socialist movement sweeping all nations under a regime of absolute equality was stalled. But with assistance from Friedrich Engels (1820-1895), Marx wrote another major book Das Kapital (1867), and his ideas continued to spread throughout Europe.
Some socialists thinkers, such as Robert Owen (1771-1858) arose in England, but Great Britian also had its share of profoundly influential free-market thinkers, such as John Locke (1632-1704), Scotland's Adam Smith (1723-1790) and Edmund Burke (1729-1797), all of whom influenced America's founding fathers.
Democracy~
Coral Ridge Ministries
p18-19 On the other side of the Atlantic, the Rousseauean vision of man as perfectable in a collective state took hold. The French Revolution (1789) was a revolt not only against capitalism and royalty, but was also an anti-Christian revolution that soon turned on it's own, with guillotines dispatching first the privileged and then anyone thought to be insufficiently revolutionary. The revolution was supposed to usher in an Age of Reason, but instead fomented the chaos that allowed Napoleon to take ultimate power and to plunge Europe into war.
Various utopian, anarchist, and socialist thinkers dominated French philosophy during the nineteenth century, paving the way for a German, Karl Marx, who co-authored The Communist Manifesto (1847), which condemned free markets, capitalism, and "inequality." Marx predicted that the "masses" would overthrow governments and create a "dictatorship of the proletariat," beginning in the industrialized nations. The state would eventually fade away into a "classless society" as men became altruistic.
In 1848 and 1849, anarchists and socialists launched failed revolutions in Europe. Marx's vision of an international socialist movement sweeping all nations under a regime of absolute equality was stalled. But with assistance from Friedrich Engels (1820-1895), Marx wrote another major book Das Kapital (1867), and his ideas continued to spread throughout Europe.
Some socialists thinkers, such as Robert Owen (1771-1858) arose in England, but Great Britian also had its share of profoundly influential free-market thinkers, such as John Locke (1632-1704), Scotland's Adam Smith (1723-1790) and Edmund Burke (1729-1797), all of whom influenced America's founding fathers.
Democracy~
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