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What is Socialism? In what ways, if at all, do you consider the ideas associated with this movement to have been related to those of romanticism?
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EUR 1200: European Studies Catherine Wyatt 19453175 Q:What is Socialism? In what ways, if at all, do you consider the ideas associated with this movement to have been related to those of romanticism? Due 4 October Although diverging in opinion on many topics and in many areas, Romanticism was as much an idea as it was a building block for Socialism. Romanticism developed after the French Revolution of 1789, and was influencial to Socialist icon Karl Marx' 'Communist Manifesto'. This was the leading piece of literature for the socialist/communist movement that followed. This was a period of social unrest where people and communities looked into the feasibility of socialist ideologies. A system of social organization which advocated the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production, capital, land etcetera, in the community as a whole increased in popularity. Both Romanticism and Socialism depend on the power of Revolutions to bring about...
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