Understanding Socialism: Part Four.
Praxis.
It’s Part Four this week, and things are really heating up. We’re bridging the gap between the “critique” years and the “praxis” years with a deep dive into the late 1800s. Mikhail Bakunin and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon make grand entrances into our narrative and bring some intrigue along with them. Part Four covers the pivotal year of 1870, the splinter between the anarchist and Democratic socialist wings of the party, and speaks to the variables present on the European continent at this critical juncture. The episode culminates with the Paris Commune of 1871 and lays the groundwork for Part Five where we’ll cover the rise of the Bolsheviks and the American labor movement. Are we having fun yet? (Don’t answer that.)
Show Notes
Clips
Episode Timestamp + Link | Clip Link
- 00:16:00 | Noam Chomsky: Bakunin’s Predictions
- 00:22:33 | How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying: Coffee Break
- 00:23:21 | Johnny Guitar: Coffee & Smoke
Book Love
- Joseph A. Schumpeter: Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy
- John M. Thompson: Revolutionary Russia, 1917
- Bernard Harcourt: Critique and Praxis
- Ray Ginger: The Bending Cross: A Biography of Eugene Victor Debs
- Karl Marx: The Communist Manifesto
- Karl Marx: Das Kapital
- Michael Harrington: Socialism: Past and Future
- Victor Serge + Natalia Ivanovna Sedova: Life and Death of Leon Trotsky
- Anne Sebba: Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy
Resources
- The Collector: What do Hegel and Marx Have in Common?
- Socialist Alternative: Robert Owen and Utopian Socialism
- Marxists.org: Encyclopedia of Marxism: Events
- Washington State University: Introduction to 19th-Century Socialism
- Howard Zinn: Commemorating Emma Goldman: 'Living My Life'
- Stanford: Hegel's Dialectics
- The History of Economic Thought: Cesare Beccaria
- Stanford: Jeremy Bentham
- Foundation for Economic Education: Robert Owen: The Woolly-Minded Cotton Spinner
- Stanford: Karl Marx
- Central European Economic and Social History: Economic Development In Europe In The 19th Century
- Marxists.org: Encyclopedia of Marxism
- The New Yorker: Karl Marx, Yesterday and Today
- Marxists.org: Glossary of Organisations
- Northwestern Whitepaper: The Second Industrial Revolution
- The Collector: Revolutions of 1848
- Chemins de Mémoire: Franco-Prussian War of 1870
- Journal of Modern History: 1870 in European History and Historiography
- JSTOR: Paul Avrich: The Legacy of Bakunin
- Marxists.org: Bakunin
- The Anarchist Library: The Federative Principle
- The Anarchist Library: Property Is Theft
Image Sources
- Mikhail Bakunin: Nadar, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Changes were made.
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: Nadar, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Changes were made.
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