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... This class soon gave rise to new political parties, dedicated to a socialist ideology. The structure and the content of socialist politics seem attractive and real for the proletariats. Socialist reaffirmed a faith in democracy, reform, compassion and decency for the working classes. ... By 1914 a sizeable labour or working-class movement existed in virtually all European Countries, the socialists at this time were very optimistic about their future as the ruling voice.
The nineteenth century, in the sense of a more of less continuous age of political and social order, lasted from 1815 to 1914, the end of the Napoleonic Wars until the beginning of the First World War. ... It was statements like this from European’s intellectual and political leaders, which helped to provoke the working class to engage in the socialist movement. ... Karl Marx’s doctrines came to prevail in the socialist and social-democratic parties, i. ... The socialist movement produced a number of demands uniformly acceptable to all countries, such as the eight-hour day (which in turn assumed standardization of labour) and universal suffrage. ... The socialist activists understood that the working class represented a social subject with tremendous political potentialities. The socialist activists had identified a ‘new political subject’ with definite potential aspirations, able to produce a coherent set of political demands for both the short and the long term. Socialist politics and the socialist movement were comprised of the most varied issues. ... The working class, striving for a better existence, could not resist being drawn to the Socialist Parties due to the positive changes the Socialist created.
The victory of Marxism, in the socialist movement of Continental Europe, was almost certainly due to the fact that it had the best available theory of exploitation and the best available theory of history. ... It was important that the theories provided by Marxism should be strong and sophisticated enough to appeal to the intellectual-minded, while being able to be simplified and circulated at a mass level by the socialist activists. ...
Another powerful event that influenced people from all over Europe to believe in the socialist movement, was the Commune of Paris in 1871. ... Nevertheless, the ideal of a Socialist International had been born and one of the results of the Commune was to give the International a popular significance greater than it had had in its own lifetime . ... Socialist Parties grew rapidly, and in 1889 a Second International was organized.
Approximate Word count = 1969
Approximate Pages = 7.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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