Rise of the Socialists late 1800s

Question 1

1985 General Confederation of Labor

Answer 1

• Founded from the merger of Federation of Labor Councils and National Federation of Trade Unions
• Dominated by anarcho-syndicalists

Question 2

May Day

Answer 2

International Workers’ Day

-Riots of 1894

Question 3

Scientific Management (Taylorism)

Answer 3

• Theory of management
• Objective of improving economic efficiency and labor productivity
• One of the first attempts to apply science to management

Question 4

Evolutionary Socialism

Answer 4

• Posited by Eduard Bernstein

- Gradual changes over revolutions necessary for fundamental structural changes to occur

Question 5

British Fabians

Answer 5

• Socialist organization

- argue for advancing socialism through gradualist/reformist principles rather than revolutionary means

Question 6

Jules Guesde

Answer 6

• French socialist
• Opposed to compromise w/ capitalism
• Organizer and leader of the Marxist wing of the French labor movement- Socialist Party of France

Question 7

Jean Jaures

Answer 7

• French socialist
• One of the first social democrats, leader of the French Socialist Party
• Antimilitarist, assassinated at the beginning of WWI

Question 8

Karl Kautsky

Answer 8

• Social-democrat theoretician

- Critic of Bolshevik revolution against Lenin and Trotsky