Understanding Socialism: Part Five.
1871 to 1917. Revolutionary Divide.
This is technically the final installment of our series “Understanding Socialism,” where we cover the period between the Paris Commune in 1871 and onset of World War I, which precedes (and leads to) the Russian Revolution in 1917. We’re going to cover the Russian Revolution briefly in an epilogue that speaks to the divergence from classical Marxism from the Revolution forward, and where socialist movements stand today. This final episode brings new figures into the spotlight such as Karl Kautsky and Rosa Luxemburg and crosses the pond to introduce the likes of Emma Goldman and Eugene Debs.
Show Notes
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
- Peter Kropotkin: The Conquest of Bread
- Staughton Lynd + Andrej Grubačic: Wobblies and Zapatistas: Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism, and Radical History
- Emma Goldman: Anarchism and Other Essays
- Anthony J. Nocella II, Mark Seis and Jeff Shantz: Classic Writings in Anarchist Criminology: A Historical Dismantling of Punishment and Domination.
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
- Jacobin: Why Kautsky was Right
- The New Yorker: Dreyfus Affair
- The Jacobin: John Dewey
- Marxists.org: Anarchism and Anarcho-Syndicalism
- Spartacus Ed: Karl Kautsky
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