Question

What were the main arguments of the utopian socialists? How did the young Marx and Engels relate to Owen and to Proudhon? Explain the Mondragon cooperative system in relation to the ideas of these early socialists.

Answer 1

The utopian socialism is a label used by Marx and Eagles for the ideas of socialist thinkers like Owen, Fourier, Cabet and Sait-Simon. The major contribution of utopian socialist was used some opinions about political, social economic visions. They are talking about every individual in society wants to improve without distinction class and the ruling class. Owen’s main contribution is that human social behavior is not fixed and free to organize themselves in any society.

Both Marx and Engels argued that the social ideas of thinkers mentioned above are just a vision for Utopian. The utopian socialists want to expand the ideas of the French revolution for creating a rational society. According to Marx Prodhoun intends to rise above bourgeoisie. Both Marx and Engels want to describe scientific socialism, not Utopian socialism. The Fourier turning work influenced by young Marx and he developed the theory of alienation.

The Mondragon corporation is the federation of workers corporative system in Spain. The international corporative alliance maintained it. They used more systematic governance and corporation that would help them to compete more accurately. They have the strength of individual corporative strength. The early corporative society was operating alongside the capitalists. These corporative have given a significant contribution to the development of capitalist society. They conducted a relatively small scale of operation.