The Rise of Socialism Audiobook By William Morris, Annie Besant, Eduard Bernstein, Edward Carpenter, Eugene Debs cover art

The Rise of Socialism

1884-1918

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The Rise of Socialism

By: William Morris, Annie Besant, Eduard Bernstein, Edward Carpenter, Eugene Debs
Narrated by: Charles Featherstone
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The birth of liberation movements in the C19th saw a rise in fighting for the rights of workers.

William Morris believed decries the belief “not that Commerce was made for man, but that man was made for Commerce”, with the profit motive that renders all work miserable when “It is right and necessary that all men should have work to do which shall be worth doing, and be of itself pleasant to do; and which should be done under such conditions as would make it neither over-wearisome nor over-anxious.”

Edward Carpenter demands of those whose only question is “Does It Pay?” to know why any action is undertaken. On starting a farm, he found, “that if I was happy in the life..., and if we were cultivating genuine and useful products… that it might really pay me better to get 1%, than 10% with jangling and wrangling.”

Annie Besant attacks a reactionary appeal to the ‘natural’ role of men and women by pointing out that it is equality of opportunity and representation that women want.

Eduard Bernstein confronts a misunderstanding that people still have today. Marx and Engels realized in their lifetimes that society was further away than they initially thought from a genuine socialism–that many small revolutions would be necessary, and that a single grand rewriting of society could not work. The next writer also refers to it, in saying that “A few.. only know what Socialism is, and they are Socialists. The rest are opposed to it because the little they know about it is not true.”

Eugene Debs rails against the approach government takes in promoting “equality” between capitalist and labourer.

We end with Debs' response to being sentenced to ten years imprisonment, for the crime of “opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune, while millions work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence. .”

Public Domain (P)2023 Brimir & Blainn
Communism & Socialism United States
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