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42 Cards in this Set
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views of Adam Smith
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opposed to mercantilism, belief in economic individualism, liassez-faire, freedom of contract, competition is good
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see problems in economy and capitalism, made up of working class people, thought evils of Industrial Revolution were in environment(big cities), thought people should live in small communal villages
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Socialists
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referred to his type of socialists as Utopian, wanted communal living, distribution of wealth
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Karl Marx
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phalanxes, believed in free love; started a communal society in Brook Farm, Mass.(didn't work out)
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Fourier
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founder of English Socialism, British capitalist and factory owner, built Modern Mill in New Lanark, Sctld., wanted others to follow his factory town idea
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Robert Owen
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Why Robert Owen went to Parliament
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to reform factories; wanted factories to be inspected
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Place where Owen established community; name of followers
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New Harmony, IN; Rappites
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followers of scientific socialism
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Karl Marx, Robert Owen
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group that Karl Marx was affiliated with that kept him from getting teaching position
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Young Hegelians(followers of George Wilhelm Hegel
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came from wealthy capitalist family, met Marx in Paris
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Frederich Engels
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Marx and Engels meet blue-collar immigrant/exiles from Germany who have a group called______
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League of the Just
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work that League of Just asks Marx and Engel to write
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Communist Manifesto
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after the League of the Just adopt the Communist Manifesto as their beliefs, what do they change their name to
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Communist League
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what happens as a result of Marx reading factory workers charges
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Parliament begins inspecting factories and charges are eventually brought upon factories
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known as the bible of socialism, written by Marx and Engels
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Das Kapital
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Doctrines of Karl Marx
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Economic interpretation of history; Dialectical Materialism; Theory of Class Struggle; Theory of Social Evolution; Surplus Value
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doctrine of Marx in which he views history as an economic system that determines events
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Economic Interpretation of History
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Idea vs. Thesis/Idea vs. Anti-thesis; dialectical argument=synthesis; says eventually the synthesis will become the perfect outcome(Communism)
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Dialectical Materialism
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workers(proletariat) struggling against capitalists(bougeroisie); govt. and religion were created to keep proletariats in oppression; religion is the opiate of the masses
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Theory of Class Struggle
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bougeroisie will become own grave diggers, as competition increases, wages and workers will be cut, unemployment will rise, some bougeroisie will become proletariat, small amount of people will have all power, "workers of the world unite"
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Theory of Social Evolution
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what will happen when the workers of the world unite
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dictatorship of the proletariat, payment according to work, state ownership of economy(in time, the perfect state, Communism, will arise
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what happens when the perfect state of Communism arises
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a classless society will arise, people will be paid according to need, state will wither away
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what capitalists call profit, Marx calls it theivery by capitalists, found in Das Kapital
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Surplus Value
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organization Karl Marx formed to spread his doctrines, London 1864; also called First International
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International Working Men's Association
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why did the First International fall apart in 1876
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workers were nationalists, not internationalists
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largest Socialist party in England
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Independent Labour Party
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what social institutions came about as a result of the political parties that arose in support of Marxist ideas
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workman's comp, old age pension, social security
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when and where did the 2nd International happen; what did it do
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1889, Paris; split socialists between revolution and reform
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when and where did the 3rd International happen; result
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1919, Moscow; Bolshevik Revolution, lasted until collapse of Soviet Union 1989
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small group of four major European powers (Great Britain, Russia, Prussia, Austria) formed after Napoleonic era
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Congress of Vienna
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who did Metternich fear; why didn't he want France to be destroyed
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Russia; thought Russia would become too powerful (theory of power vaccuum)
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Ideas of Congress of Vienna
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Legitamacy, Restoration, Compensation, Balance of Power
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Legitamacy
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status quo would become what it was before French Revolution; Bourbon Dynasty restored
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Restoration
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land restored to what it was before war
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Compensation
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major powers wanted to keep some of land that they gained during war
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Balance of Power
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power would be balanced between Russia, Great Britain, Prussia, Austria (Quadruple Alliance)
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what the meetings of Congress of Vienna became known as
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Congress System/ Concert of Europe
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Spanish revolts of 1820's
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Spanish soldiers told to go to colonies and put down revolts, soldiers wouldn't go, French soldiers intervened to put down revolts in Spain
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what happened as a result of the French helping out in Spain
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Congress System invited France to join; became known as Quintuple Alliance
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why did Great Britain drift from Quintuple Alliance
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they wanted free trade and free seas; other powers were mercantilisic
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who did Great Britain ask U.S. for an alliance against
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France and Spain
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concerns of John Quincy Adams (Sec. of State)
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did not trust British; concerned that Russia and Spain would colonize western U.S.
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