... de Saint-Simon (1760-1825) and Francois-Marie-Charles Fourier (1772-1837) and the Welshman Robert Owen (1771-1858). All three of them were visionaries with little political logic, hoping to bring about a better society through the voluntary efforts of people of good will (perhaps remnants of the Enlightenment.) However, Owen was able to put any of his ideas to practice. Pierre ... Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865) , articulated a hostility toward capitalists that was apparent in the writings of many socialists. His slogan "property is theft" was a handy ... summation of the labour theory of v...

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... works, with an emphasis on the latter, as well as Marx's life and times, and show how his work contributed to the field of sociology. Brief Biography Born to an upper middle class family in 1818 in Prussia (Germany), Marx was exposed to the ideas of social change at a young age (Marx and McLellan, 2000). Raised in a post-Enlightenment household, Marx was heavily influenced ... by the revolutionary period in history. In fact, so revolutionary was this period in history that without it, sociology may not have ... become the institution that it is today. Eventually creating the school of ...

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