Paris Commune of 1871
- An article by the New Yorker, detailing why this 150+ year-old rebellion is still modernly applicable to our world today.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/22/fires-paris - A video which humorously describes and explains the events which passed during the “revolution” of 1871. Key actors, events, and context are identified and explained…albeit quickly and with many memes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXlHGseyvfw
Utopian Socialism
- One of the contributors to the the theory of utopian socialism was Henri de Saint-Simon–a biography of his life, but at the end, an explanation of his writings and thoughts.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henri-de-Saint-Simon - Another contributor to the theory of utopian socialism was Charles Fourier–again, a biography. He was a bit more eccentric than his counterpart, but he did coin the term ‘feminism’ in his writings.
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Charles_Fourier - “The Tenets of Utopian Socialism”
http://www2.muw.edu/~tvelek/UtopianSocialism.html
