Marxism & Socialist International A Threat to Nationalism

Marxism & Socialist International

A Threat to Nationalism

Solidarity Forever• 1st Socialist International - 1864 in London

– Karl Marx one of the Founders

– Supported Paris Commune

• 2nd Socialist International - 1889 in Paris

– Declared May 1st as International Worker’s Day

– Declared March 8th as International Women’s Day

– Initiated Campaign for 8-hour working day

– Famous members: August Bebel; Rosa Luxemburg; Karl Kautsky; Clara Zetkin; Jean Jaurès; Vladimir Lenin

1st International

May Day

Unions & Revisionism

Establishing the Social Order

1850 - 1900

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Map 24.1bEuropean Cities of 100,000 of More, 1800 and 1900

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Map 24.1aEuropean Cities of 100,000 of More, 1800 and 1900

The Growth of “The City”

Urban Problems

As urban populationgrows…so does disease and crime

• Edwin Chadwick

Edwin Chadwick: Reforms for the Poor

“Poverty and misery are the parents of crime”

Organized Police ForceFrance: 1829 Serjents

Britain: 1850’sThe Bobbies

Science & Public HealthLouis Pasteur:

• 1885 vaccine against rabies

• 1890 vaccine against diphtheria, typhoid & cholera

JosephLister

1827-1912

…50% of surgery patients died after surgery….

Thomas Crapper(1836 - 1910)

Urban Planning

Introduction of Boulevards

The Model City of Vienna

Class structure andliving structure

Mass Transit

From Horse-drawn to Electric

Underground Transportation

The Tube