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History of Socialism
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02/21/2008

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Charles Fourier (1772-1837)
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A French Utopian Socialist/Philosopher. Had a notion of women's rights as an element of social progress.Cooperation could occur in communities called 'phalanxes'. Believed that there were passions and that society should work based on laws of attraction.
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Saint-Simon (1760-1825)
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French Utopian Socialist thinker. His greatest work was 'The New Christianity".
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Robert Owen (1771-1858)
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Social reformer and founder of the cooperative movement. He believed that people were a product of their own environment, so he supported education and labor reform.
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syndicalism
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aims to transform capitalism through action by the working class. Labor unions are an important means of achieving the goals of the majority and of shaping capitalism to benefit the industrial masses. In an ideal syndicalist, labor unions would run government and industry.
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