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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826526003321

Autore

Pilbeam Pamela M. <1941->

Titolo

French socialists before Marx : workers, women, and the social question in France / / Pamela Pilbeam

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham : , : Acumen Publishing, , 2000

ISBN

1-282-92126-6

9786612921261

1-84465-324-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 259 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

320.5310944

Soggetti

Socialism - France - History - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1 Plural socialism -- 2 The social question -- 3 Revolutionary inspirations -- 4 Religion and the early socialists -- 5 Socialists and education: to repulse the barbarians -- 6 The "new woman" -- 7 Association: dream worlds -- 8 Worker associations before 1848 -- 9 Association: socialist hopes in the Second Republic -- 10 Association: the conservative reaction in the Second Republic -- 11 Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

In this pioneering and wide-ranging reassessment of early socialist ideas and reforming strategies, Pamela Pilbeam reveals a remarkable period of intellectual creativity and achievement wholly distinct from the post-1870 movement that has invariably formed the starting point for most histories of socialism. The book pulls together and identifies the major issues that preoccupied the early socialists: revolution, religion, education, the status of women, association and work and outlines how socialist ideas developed from a morality-based plural socialism of men and women that sought to smooth away class conflict to a materialist, internationalist socialism that used the rhetoric of revolution and class war.