5.2 Flashcards
Economic Liberalism
laissez faire: government! dont’ mess with the economy, the supply and demand and natural economic forces will control it and you only do three things
Malthus
all the horrible things in nature (poverty and misery) should just happen because it will cancel out the gap between geometric and arithmetic rate of population and food
Ricardo
don’t mess with the system. it’ll just go back in circles (think about it!)
Liberalism
- came from enlightenment and french and american revolutions
- liked economic individualism and government intervention in economy and had little concerned for plight of urban workers (malthus and ricardo)
- they wanted everyone to be equal before the law and have CIVIL LIBERTIES
- GOVERNMENT and DOCUMENT should be written to guarantee and protect those rights
- the church and state should be separate
- they believed a constitutional monarchy or state would limit the power of government
- they wanted a representative government
- they wanted ministerial responsibility
- they believed in limited suffrage or NOT FULL DEMOCRACY (only certain people can have POLITICAL rights)
John Stuart Mills
- he wanted “absolute freedom of opinion and sentiment” (meaning….)
- he was a supporter of women’s rights
Nationalism
- after the FRENCH REVOLUTION, nationalism became a popular force
- nationalism threatened to UPSET the existing POLITICAL ORDER (balance of power in Italy and Germany from congress of Vienna, Hungary and Austrian empire )
nationalism beliefs
- the PRIMARY POLITICAL LOYALTY was believed to be to the NATION
- nationalists believed each NATIONALITY should have its OWN GOVERNMENT (ex: Germans, Hungarians)
- they believed every nation should be SOVEREIGN
Liberalism and Nationalism allies
liberals believed LIBERTY could be realized only when PEOPLES RULED THEMSELVES
how Socialism came to be
- the pitiful conditions of INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
- people wanted to introduce EQUALITY into social and economic conditions
- people believed HUMAN COOPERATION is better than COMPETITION
beliefs of socialism
- The resources and means of production should be owned by the community
- The profits of human labor should be EQUALLY distributed
Utopian socialist beliefs
Against private property
Against competitioN
Fourier
- he wanted to create SMALL MODEL COMMUNITIES called PHALANSTERIES
- he wanted to prove the ADVANTAGES OF COOPERATIVE LIVING
- however it remained UNTESTED
Owen
-he believed people would reveal their true natural goodness if they lived in a cooperative environment
-in the end he was successful in NEW LANARK, SCOTLAND
(he wasn’t successful in Indiana)
Blanc
- he believed social problems could be solved by government assistance and competition is the MAIN EVIL
- He wanted the state to finance workshops, and workers would own and work them
Female Supporters of Utopian Socialism
utopian socialism attracted women who believed only the reordering of society would help women