HI102: Modern World Civilization

Handout Six

Topic: The Industrial Revolution and the Birth of Marxism

OUTLINE:

VI. The Industrial Revolution and the Birth of Marxism.

A. Introduction.

B. England: The Nation of Shopkeepers.

C. Rebels Against the Future

D. The Revolutionary Fervor of the Times

E. The British Response to Industrialism.

F. The Classical Economists Respond.

G. The Utilitarian Plans for an Industrial Society.

H. The Utopians Aspirations.

I. Karl Marx and Scientific Socialism.

QUESTIONS:

 1. Who were the Luddites and why did they want to reverse clock and return to an earlier age? Why did they attack the machines?

2. Who was Karl Marx? How did Marx and Engels change History? What was the important message that both Marx and Engels conveyed to the radicals of 1848 in the Communist Manifesto? What were the essential components of Marxism?

3. How did the classical economists view the world? What role did they reserve for the state in improving the standard of living for the general public?

4. Who was John Stuart Mill? What part did he play in redefining liberalism?

5. How did Robert Owen attempt to change the course of industrialism?

6. Why did England avoid the revolutionary violence that plagued the continent between 1820 and 1848?

7. What was the radium case? How was radium used and what precautions existed to protect workers using radioactive materials?

TERMS:

 Karl Marx          Hegel         Dialectic                  The Communist Manifesto

Das Kapital       Friedrich Engels    James Watt     Domestic System

Jeremy Bentham   New Poor Laws      Poor Laws    Poor Law Unions

Indoor Relief       Outdoor Relief        Robert Peel     People’s Charter

William Lovett     Great Famine        Chartism           Thomas Malthus

David Ricardo     Iron Laws of Wages 

Essay on the Principles of Population  

Radium              Walter Lippmann    Grace Fryer