07++Describe+the+rise+of+unions+and+socialism,+including+the+ideas+and+influence+of+Robert+Owen+and+Karl+Marx


 * Describe the rise of unions and socialism, including the ideas and influence of Robert Owen and Karl Marx [four things here] (106-7, 150):**
 * Rise of unions:**
 * Rise of unions:**

The Utopians were early socialists who believed that if there was no difference between rich and poor, fighting would dissappear.

Labor unions became the organizational core of the Democratic Party.

Robert Owen believed the conditions people lived in shaped their character.

Karl Marx and Robert Owen where the two writers of the Communist Manifesto, they wrote the Manifesto so people would better understand Communism.


 * Rise of socialism:**

Socialism is concerned with the relationship between the individual, state, and society. Karl Marx insisted that capitalism had to be completely changed in order for society to get to a state of socialism. The government declared that if any persons shared equal ownership of things then there would not be any more poverty. This plan however did not end up how they wanted it to. A socialist society is a society organized on the basis of relatively equal power relations.

Socialsim emerged when thinkers started to focus on society. They believed capitalism had created a gap between thwe rich and the poor. They proposed a radical solution to end capitalism, injustice and poverty, and that was socialism.

Socialism includes almsot equal power and and good desicion making inorder to benefit society, which Karl Marx thought was not a good blue print for society to follow.

Robert Owen is known for his attempts to improve working conditions at the New Lanark Mills and is also known as a key thinker of the early socialist movement. Owen helped teach protective age laws for child workers, drastically improved workers' living conditions, and provided schools and instruction for his employees and their children.
 * ideas and influence of Robert Owen:**

Robert Owen built a model village with homes and a school for all his mill workers because he believed that the condition of the place you live directly effected your characteristics.

Robert Owen helped put laws into effect that restricted the ages of children working in factories and he made the living conditions of workers better.

Owen's philosophy was based on three pillars No one was responsible for his/her will and his/her own actions because his whole character is formed independently of himself; people are products of their environment, hence his support for education and labour reform, rendering him a pioneer in human capital investment. Second, all religions are based on the same ridiculous imagination, that make man a weak, or a miserable hypocrite. Third, support for the putting-out system instead of the factory system

Robert Owen was a Welsh social reformer who was aslo one of the minds behind the whole idea of Scoialism.

Marx belief was that "private property" was bad, and that things should be owned by the people. He also said that if someone is in need to government will help them, they will provide EVERYONE with housing, food and work.
 * ideas and influence of Karl Marx:**

Marxism began as a response to the Industrial Revolution. Marx believed that industrialism separated society into the bourgeoisie (middle class=owners of factories and land) and the prolertariat (working class=perform labor necessary for production). Marx argued for a systemic understanding of socio-economic change. He argued that the structural contradictions within capitalism necessitate its end, giving way to socialism. The main idea of Karl Marxs' philosophy was that the woeking class was opressed and the only way to change this was to make a classless society. Marxists debate on how to interpret Karl Marx's writings and how to apply his concepts.

From Adam Smith, Marx borrowed the idea that labor was the generator of wealth, and concluded that industrial capitalists made their wealth by exploiting industrial labor.

Karl Marx was a German Philosopher and author of The Communist Manifesto, a short book that denounces Capitalism. In the book is written that because of Capitalism there are such social classes such as the Middle class and the working class. He believed that because of the struggle of different classes Capitalsim would lead to destruction in society. His idea was to replace Capitalism with Socialism in order to create a stateless, classeles society which would stop tension. He also believed that the government should be more involved in the role of people's occupations ( the government would choose the career for each incividual based on the individual's skills.).

Marx's analysis of history focuses on the organisation of labor and depends on his distinction.

Karl Marx played a major role in develloping socialism and communism into what it is today. He believed communism would eventually replace capitalism.

Karl Marx believed that there truly was no private property and that the government owned everything. This relates to the ideas of sociallisim and communisim. Marx argued that capitalism, like previous socioeconomic systems, would inevitably produce internal tensions which would lead to its destruction

Marx believed that no land should be private, that it belonged to everyone. He thought that people should have jobs based on what they were good at and what they needed. Marx wrote a book on communism that became one of the most important books of all time.

Marx was a communist thinker who believed that the government should provide for all.

Karl Marx along his own ideas about people and property was one of the two writers of the Communist Manifesto.