A Post-DBQ Week

HERE is the Chp 24 Stuff

And HERE is the Socialism Graphic sheet (Stuff on the board)

Monday:
In Class: NO School for you!!!

Tuesday:
In Class: Short Test on 23 + HW packet due
HW: None

Wednesday:
In Class: Socialists
HW: Begin section 7 (socialists)

Thursday:
In Class:
HW: Finish Section 7, short quiz on Friday

Friday:
In Class: short Quiz on section 7

 

Comments

[adams]

SECTION 7

Trade Unionism
Political activism of the working class through the new concept of the Trade Union.
Unions are collections of workers created to increase their power relative to the owners.
Unions have similar functions to some aspects of guilds. (big difference: Guilds existed in the world of small owner-workers. Unions exist in a world of workers AND owners). Unions were outlawed until the late 1800s.
Trade Unionism was a left wing political phenomenon and often supported socialist policies

First International
International organization of various radical groups (socialists, anarchists, Unionists) designed to support reform in the lives of workers. It gathered statistics, kept labor groups informed of various problems, & provided a forum to debate socialist doctrine. Marxism will emerge as the dominant strand of socialism in part because of the First International.

Fabian Society

British socialist organization. Laborer-supporting intellectuals who stressed the need for the workers to use their right to vote to capture the House of Commons and pass legislation that would benefit the laboring class. They later combined with trade unions to form the Labor Party.

Labour Party (in chp 23)
New socialist party in England created by a coalition of worker groups (trade unions) and Fabian socialists in the late 1800s. The (far-left) Labour Party will capitalize on the (center-left) Liberal split over Home Rule. Its creation/popularity forces David Lloyd George’s Liberal Party to eject laissez-faire. The Labour party advocated socialist policies such as public ownership of key industries, government intervention in the economy, redistribution of wealth, increased rights for workers, the welfare state, publicly-funded healthcare and education.
(Preview: The first Labour Government/Prime Minister will not occur until 1924)

David Lloyd George- “new” Liberalism

Prime Minister who transformed Gladstone’s Liberal Party by rejecting laissez faire (while keeping political liberalism).
His efforts represented some of the first steps toward the future British Welfare state.
National Insurance Act of 1911( provided benefits for workers in the case of sickness and unemployment). Pensions for those over 70 and compensation for those injured while working. 
Increased the tax burden on the wealthy class.

“New” Liberalism- 

David Lloyd George’s changes to the British Liberal Party.
The demands of the working-class movement caused Liberals to move away from their economic ideals. They abandoned laissez-faire and voted for a series of social reforms and gradually created a British welfare state. Liberalism’s core of ‘the government that governs least governs best’ had been transformed. They kept political liberalism, but changed economic liberalism. This would be closer to the modern liberalism of America that you are familiar with.

The National Insurance Act of 1911
provided benefits for workers in the case of sickness and unemployment, to be financed by compulsory contributions from workers, employers, and the state. Significance: 1) represents an early beginning of the British welfare system and 2) represents the shift in liberalism FROM laissez –faire TO a system of direct help to the poor.

Eduard Bernstein Evolutionary Socialism 

- the most prominent Marxist-Revisionist and member of the German Social Democratic Party. He challenged Marxist orthodoxy with his book Evolutionary Socialism in which he argued that some of Marx’s ideas were wrong (such as the capitalist system had not broken down, nor did its demise seem near. And property was becoming more, not less, diffused). He believed that evolution by democratic means (the vote), not revolution, would achieve the desired goal of socialism.

Social Democratic Party (SPD in Germany, SDP in England)

- German political party that followed revolutionary Marxist rhetoric while organizing itself as a mass political party competing in elections for the Reichstag. Once there, SPD delegates worked to enact legislation to improve the condition of the working class. Other SPDs based on the German model were founded in Belgium, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, Poland, Romania, the Netherlands, and Russia. Eventually, it would become less revolutionary and more “revisionary”

Social Democrats 

Becomes a major socialist groups in many countries during this period.
- Germany: industrialization led to a greater expansion for them. By 1912, it became the largest single party in the Reichstag. At the same time it became less revolutionary and more revisionist in its outlook. - Russia: repression of socialism forced it to go underground and become revolutionary; the Marxist

Marxist Revisionism
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led by Bernstein, it was the concept that socialist ideas could be accomplished through using the present government, by voting democratically and peacefully rather than by violent revolution

Mensheviks- 

One wing of the Russian Social Democratic Party.
In 1904, the Russian Social Democratic Party divided into two factions: the Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks. The Mensheviks wanted the Social Democrats to be a mass electoral socialist party based on a Western model. Like the Social Democrats of Germany, they were willing to cooperate temporarily in a parliamentary democracy while working toward the ultimate achievement of the socialist state.

Bolsheviks- 
a small faction of the Russian Social Democrats who came under the leadership of V. I. Lenin, who led the Bolsheviks to become a party dedicated to violent revolution. Lenin believed that only a violent revolution could destroy the capitalist system and that a “vanguard” of activists must form a small party of well-disciplined professional revolutionaries to accomplish the task. He also maintained that that the soviets of soldiers, workers, and peasants were ready-made instruments of power to execute his Marxist revolutionary plan. The Bolsheviks will eventually become the communist in the 1917 Russian Revolution.

How Lenin modified Marxism

- Lenin argued that it was NOT necessary for Russia to experience a bourgeois period before it could move toward socialism, instead it could move directly into socialism from Feudalism through the leadership of a revolutionary elite (vanguard).

Bloody Sunday
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the Russo-Japanese war caused growing discontent of Russians and led to upheaval. Middle class businessman wanted liberal institutions and a liberal political system. Nationalities were dissatisfied with their domination by a 45% Russian ethnic population. Peasants were still suffering from a lack of land, and laborers felt oppressed by their working and living conditions in Russia’s large cities. When a war-related transportation breakdown led to food shortages in major Russian cities, a procession of workers went to the palace in St. Petersburg on Jan, 9 1905 to present a petition of grievances to the tsar. Troops idiotically opened fire on the peaceful demonstration, killing hundreds and launching a revolution (this was known as “Bloody Sunday”). This event caused workers to call for strikes and form unions; meanwhile zemstvos demanded a parliamentary government, ethnic groups revolted, and peasants burned the houses of landowners. Nicholas II responded by issuing the October Manifesto which granted civil liberties and agreed to create a Duma (legislative assembly) elected directly by a broad franchise. This didn’t last long however and soon Russia was under tsarist rule again until World War I.

[Kangsta]

Hi, for the quiz tomorrow, do we have to know the Russian terms like rasputin, mir, kulaks, Duma, etc? And also, what did Jean Jaures do again? Thanks!

[adams]

nah, let's just stick to the ones that are on here.

[adams]

There are other NON-Russian Terms that are NOT defined on here which WILL be on the quiz. Jean Juares comes to mind.

[Adams]

News Flash: If you're not into "gotcha" quizzes here's an alternative.

As the quiz you can reproduce the right-hand side of that Socialism graphic (main points) on a blank sheet of paper.

or you can just take the 10 question quiz

[Kimberly]

The quiz will be fill in the blank type things like you give us a definition or description and we say the term/person/idea right?

[Kimberly]

and the right side is the box with Bernstein and the box with Vladimir and Non communist box correct?

[adams]

Correct-a-mundo

[adams]

and
Correct-a-mundo again

[Virginia]

Hold on, what is the right side box? the box that was on the board?

[Will Martin]

is it going to be more terms or more review packet? what should be first priority in my studies?

[adams]

terms

on the right side of the board

Go to the calendar post. see where it says "HERE" is the ...
Go there : )

[.]

so do we memorize the entire socialism chart that is on here?

[adams]

just the right half of the page

[adams]

not the "entire" chart. just a couple of key words for each guy

[Drew Brown]

Will the women stuff we learned today be on the quiz, or is it mainly just the socialism guys?

[adams]

just 7 (no women)

[spaz]

do we know when the homework packet is due?

[adans]

Jewish stuff
SECTION 6

Anti-Semitism- Hatred of Jews
Although Anti-Semitism is most associated with the far-right, it could be found all over the left/right spectrum.
- Germany: it was aided by the combination of nationalism and racism, many thought that inferior races, especially the Jews, were parasites on the pure Aryan race (German, “creators of Western culture”).
- France: The Dreyfus Affair was an example of Anti-semitism and the breakdown of the 3rd Republic.
- Vienna: German nationalism blamed Jews for the corruption of German culture. was said by Hitler to be where he “found his worldview”, one of violent German nationalism and rabid anti-Semitism.
- Eastern Europe: Worst examples of Anti-Semitism, where 72% of the world Jewish population lived.

Zionism
a Jewish movement seeking to reestablish a Jewish homeland in Palestine (ancient Israel) that arose in response to growing anti-Semitism. Theodor Herzl was Zionism’s strongest proponent. 3,000 Jews went annually to Palestine from 1904 to 1914, but by WWI the Zionist movement remained nothing more than a dream.