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Comments on "Robert Owen, Draft #2
[2] This is an important basis at the beginning. […]
The great …
It is an interesting account for someone how doesn’t know about Owen.
In the sentence where we discuss …
There is too much eulogy …
Why did ‘America’ fail? Because the capitalistic discipline of finding didn’t exit.
[3] On this level there are perhaps a dozen things, but now that I have written it it should …
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[4] Preceding this chapter the Introduction would supply it on Owen (myself: and perhaps in the conclusion).
[…] He made a plan part of the administrative Poor Law and he missed the point that there would be no human community. He thought he would mobilize the community without communion.
This book is supposed to be about freedom. The way this book is written, freedom is a desideratum, the absence of which is a criticism of society. Owen himself didn’t think he needs freedom at all. That is a fact. Under freedom of the individual, that he has the freedom to starve. Owen introduced this term.
Owen himself had to introduce the discipline of hunger in [5] the Village of Union – the indentured debtor of a worker who can’t leave. We must go into this. We must limit the points that we make.
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[6] We must be careful about the Builders Guild which was a tremendous movement but failed forever in England. However it continuer in France. All the small contractors said that they could supply the labour and material and make a contract to obtain the capital on a piece-meal basis. We should say more about this idea of the old world and new world existing side-by-side. Also, we must find the right place for socialism. We can only do this if there is an overall idea. It doesn’t matter if the chapter become longer.
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[7] We must have a beginning. Somewhere I must say what story it is that the reader is to expect now. We showed that this is complicated by his fear of revolution, his obsession of gradualism and his utter dedication unto death. … We might call it “Robert Owen Discovers Society”, but P. said this of Aristotle.
[8] Really two things are missing:
1) Why owen? That is the proposition which carries the whole.
2) That must be born out by the problems in the content which comes up.
There must be a transition which banks on socialist efficiency for peaceful penetration of the whole of society. The two societies are capable of existing side by side. […] He was definitively prophetic. We should give two or three cases e.g. the factory is most apparent now.
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[9] We know the concrete position from Dale and Owen didn’t think that Dale did as much as Cole seems to think.
I have the definite task …
[10] [11]
[12] […] he refused compromise with the Christian religion which was peculiar. Atheism was rampant in these circles. These were millionaires. He wanted a purely ethical religion. The French “moral laique” derived from him, also numerous ethical movements.
Owen refused to drop the machine and saw no inherent limitation in it.
[13] … Such a recent beginning (two hundred years) is rarely given to a basic problem of existence. That is why there is something inherently improbable in the position and that is why this is a good beginning with a man who is crazy about the machine and society and to a point is the originator of the socialist hope. […]
[14] … The societies turned socialist through the superiority of their producing methods. Adam Smith didn’t notice machines.
[15] The division of labour didn’t involve machinery.
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"Freedom and Technology" - General Comments (5)
Trade and Market in the Early Empires (4)
[30] Schumpeter
[32]
The Market
Interdisciplinary Project (4)
Sartre and Camus (3)
Paul Schweitzer
Notes
The New Philosophy
K.P. Personal (4)
Socialism
Religion and Capitalism
Economic Motives
Russia (3)
[46] P. thinks that the rehabilitation of Trotsky is the question which is prerequisite to moral sanity and recuperation in Russia.
P. thought that Trotsky openly conspired with the Germans.
They have already rehabilitated Tukhachevsky. Here Stalin was involved and the story is that the Nazi ambassador trapped him and produced false documents against Tukhachevsky which Stalin needed.
Stalin was a person of very shaky morality. The same thing happened previously to Blucher (1939)↑
Iron Curtain Literature
The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism
"Psychology and Ideology" (2)
P. worked hard in New York on the sociology paper with Terry[1]. It is a real sociology of ideology and has much relevance to institutional sociology.[2] ↑