4, Socialism

Question 1

Babeuf and communism through his newspaper

Answer 1

Babeuf uses his newspaper to exploit Directory corruption and how they don’t follow three French Rev ideals

Freedom to engage in economic activity and to own PROPERTY does not produce a society in which everyone is EQUAL
EQUALITY can only be brought about by FORCE
DICTATORSHIP can be in peoples best interests – need structure and to be told what to do/want

Question 2

Saint-Simon approach to socialism

Answer 2

Opposite to Babeuf
Scientific approach to equality: breakdown of superstition -> scientific age

Question 3

Charles Fourier views on socialism

Answer 3

Commerce is fraud: “a mode of exchange in which the seller has the right to defraud with impurity” - apple in one town half as expensive as one in another