Abstract:

Socialist thought, workers’ movements and conspiratory/revolutionary movements were important components of European intellectual and political life in the 1830s. Marx and Engels were directly or indirectly influenced by the theorists and political leaders of the decade, and polemicized against them in their works. The first chapter implies analyzes the impact of the industrial development over British society in the 1830s, of the formation of the Chartist movement, and of the vicissitudes of Owenism during the same decade. The second chapter is dedicated to an analysis of the diversification of socialist ideas and the development of workers’ movements in France. The article underlines the links between the developement of industrial capitalism and the rise of the mass movements. The present paper aims at analyzing the main Dynamics of the developemnt of socialist thougt through their links with social, economic and political processes of the 1830s.

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