the socialist challenge

Question 1

grievances the socialists had with industrial societies:

Answer 1

• difference in wealth between captain and worker
  -exploiting laborers (women and kids)
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Question 2

goals of utopian socialists

Answer 2

establish ideal communities that would point the way to equitable society (economic/political/legal/social balance)

Question 3

Marx and Engels industrial society?

Answer 3

communism

• urge workers to seize control
• fair, just, and egalitarian society more humane

Question 4

why did marx and engels condemn music, art, literature?

Answer 4

“they amused the working class and diverted attention from their misery

Question 5

what did Marx and Engels predict would happen to communist society in the Communist Manifesto?

Answer 5

capitalism will end due to crisis of overlap, underconsumption, diminishing profits

Question 6

how did the representative government respond to socialists and liberals?

Answer 6

-increased security’
-prohibit underground employment for women
-kids under 9 only can work for 9 hours away
-parliamentary
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Question 7

what were the goals of trade unions?

Answer 7

advance the quest for a just and equitable society

-higher wages for workers