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An 8 page research paper that answers four questions pertaining to economic conditions in Europe in the nineteenth century. Topics explored are the relationship between union and socialism; difference between liberalism and conservatism; causes behind imperialism and causes and effects of population expansion. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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should be held in common and that all citizens should be equal within the societal structure (Panitch, 2001). The earliest nineteenth century socialists were utopians, who envisioned ideal societies in
which there would be material equality, with all citizens cooperating in production for the benefit of all. The term first was first coined in France, following the French Revolution, and
referred to the ideas generated by the "great Utopian socialists, Charles Fourier and Comte Henry de Saint-Simon" (Foster, 2005, p. 1). The Utopian socialists capitalism as an economic system that
was transitory, like feudalism, and they predicted that from it would emerge a truly just system based on equality (Foster, 2005). They differed widely, however, in regards to how
this state should be achieved. They did, however, have a common vision that society should be based on cooperation, rather than competition. The misery and exploitation of the industrial workers
in the early nineteenth century propelled the popularity of socialism, as socialism focused on providing a means of producing general societal wealth without such exploitation. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
developed a system of ideas that they referred to as scientific socialism, in which Marx addressed the locus of power within society, which proposed that the working class, the proletariat,
would rise up and overthrow the bourgeoisie (property owners), in order to establish a socialist state. As this suggests, the political, economic and social goals of socialists and those
people involved in developing unions were similar in their orientation and purpose. Therefore, it is not surprising that in many European countries during the nineteenth century socialists involvement was pivotal
to the creation of trade unions, particularly from the 1870s onward (Fraser, 1974). However, Panitch (2001) points out that Marx was in error when he argued that the rise of
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