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So, I've made it to the socialist 1840s. That's a LOT of progress, I'm sure. A good thing is that I've finally started making connections between the Industrial Revolution, the French Revolution, the Chartist movement, Romanticism, and the rise of socialism. Yes. And yay for finally registering the relationship between Romanticism and nationalism and industrialism and socialism. Rawrs.
An amusing excerpt from the 1840s readings on Fourier (French proponent for cooperation):
Thus the dirty and unattractive work of the community would be done, he suggested, by "little hordes" of children, who at a certain age have been providentially endowed with a love of being dirty. They would be "passionately attracted" to scavenging, and would be always on foot (or riding on their Shetland ponies) at 3 a.m. even in the depths of winter, repairing roads, killing vermin, attending to animals, and working in the slaughterhouses.
*now, back to socialism*
An amusing excerpt from the 1840s readings on Fourier (French proponent for cooperation):
Thus the dirty and unattractive work of the community would be done, he suggested, by "little hordes" of children, who at a certain age have been providentially endowed with a love of being dirty. They would be "passionately attracted" to scavenging, and would be always on foot (or riding on their Shetland ponies) at 3 a.m. even in the depths of winter, repairing roads, killing vermin, attending to animals, and working in the slaughterhouses.
*now, back to socialism*