Historia del Pensamiento Socialista, I. Los Precursores, 1789-1850

A History of Socialist Thought #1

by G.D.H. Cole

يتناول الكتاب الفترة من 1789 حتى منتصف القرن التاسع عشر.

Genres: History, Politics, Nonfiction

342 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1953

About the author

George Douglas Howard Cole was an English political theorist, economist, writer and historian. As a libertarian socialist he was a long-time member of the Fabian Society and an advocate for the cooperative movement. He and his wife Margaret Cole (1893-1980) together wrote many popular detective stories, featuring the investigators Superintendent Wilson, Everard Blatchington and Dr Tancred.

Cole was educated at St Paul's School and Balliol College, Oxford.

As a conscientious objector during World War One, Cole's involvement in the campaign against conscription introduced him to a co-worker, Margaret Postgate, whom he married in 1918. The couple both worked for the Fabian Society for the next six years before moving to Oxford, where Cole started writing for the Manchester Guardian. During these years, he also authored several economic and historical works including biographies of William Cobbett and Robert Owen. In 1925, he became reader in economics at University College, Oxford. In 1944, Cole became the first Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at Oxford. He was succeeded in the chair by Isaiah Berlin in 1957.

Reviews

[Pablo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Un libro de historia bastante ameno de leer. Si bien esta centrado en el pensamiento socialista y el autor es de izquierdas, el libro se aleja del proselitismo e intenta mostrar un recorrido lo más objetivo posible. La mayoría de las ideas socialistas que se exponen en este libro han quedado eclipsadas por el marxismo, pero algunas se parecen a las posiciones "antisistema" surgidas posteriores a la caída de la URSS, especialmente las relativas a construir por "fuera" del estado.
Es muy valioso también como muestra el crisol de posiciones -incluso contradictorias entre ellas- que podemos llamar socialistas. Y cómo estas surgen de los problemas reales que provoca el capitalismo industrial de la época. Por tanto, también el libro funciona como una mirada de la política, economía y sociedad de la primera mitad del siglo XIX en Inglaterra, Francia y Alemania.

[Nathan Fisher · Rating 3 out of 5]

The remarks on Marxism are notably shallow (predictably, given his own politics) but read as a road map, it has its uses.

[marto · Rating 4 out of 5]

it's a very accessible and interesting book on some less-known socialists that influenced marx and others, from utopian socialism to owenism

[Michael’ · Rating 3 out of 5]

When Cole writes socialism he seems to specifically mean state-control, not direct control by workers like through communes and worker’s cooperatives, he even goes as far as implying that socialism's founder Saint-Simon was not actually a Socialist because he opposed government control.

[Carlos · Rating 3 out of 5]

Se enfoca en el socialismo previo al marxismo, principalmente

[Diego Gomez · Rating 4 out of 5]

Buena introducción a la historia de la izquierda socialista