19 th Century Isms
FORGET WHAT YOU THINK YOU KNOW ABOUT Conservatism Liberalism Romanticism Socialism Nationalism Feminism
CONSERVATISM Social Class(es): Aristocracy / Landed Gentry Buzzwords Tradition Institutions Privileges Mixes Well With Doesn t Play Well With Romanticism (Sometimes) Liberalism (vs. Socialism) Liberalism Socialism Nationalism Proponent(s) Document(s) Edmund Burke, Metternich Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France C L R N S F
Social Class(es): Buzzwords Mixes Well With Proponent(s) LIBERTY Laissez-faire Reform Nationalism (Self-Determination) Conservatism (vs. Socialism) LIBERALISM Bourgeoisie (Professional Class) Constitution Choice Individualism Doesn t Play Well With Conservatism Romanticism SOCIALISM Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill Natural Rights Equality PROGRESS Document(s) Wealth of Nations, On Liberty C L R N S F
Conservatism vs. Liberalism Conservative INHERITED Rights A connection with the past Liberal NATURAL Rights God-given
Burke s Liberal Conservatism Burke supported the American Revolution because it combined liberal values with a connection with the British tradition of government.
Revolutions Compared GLORIOUS Revolution MODIFIED Existing Institutions FRENCH Revolution DESTROYED Existing Institutions
Revolutions Compared GLORIOUS Revolution MODIFIED Existing Institutions FRENCH Revolution CREATED Brand New Institutions
Social Class(es): Buzzwords Mixes Well With Proponent(s) Document(s) ROMANTICISM Beauty Nature Conservatism (Backward Looking) Nationalism (It s Just Beautiful) Artists, Authors, & Poets Nostalgia Enlightenment Doesn t Play Well With William Blake (Poet) Eugène Delacroix (Artist) Liberalism The Sorrows of Young Werther Frankenstein Blake s Poetry C L R N S F
Social Class(es): Buzzwords Mixes Well With Liberalism (Self-Determination) Romanticism (Beauty & Ideals) Proponent(s) Document(s) NATIONALISM ALL (Nationality Transcends Class) Spirit (Volksgeist) Freedom Independence Mazzini (Italy) Hegel (German Philosopher) Doesn t Play Well With The Duties of Man (Mazzini) Grimm s Fairy Tales Conservatism C L R N S F
Liberty Leading the People Eugène Delacroix (1830)
Social Class(es): Buzzwords Mixes Well With Proponent(s) Document(s) JUSTICE EQUALITY FAIRNESS It s Complicated SOCIALISM Working Classes Louis Blanc, Karl Marx Harmony Cooperation Association Organization Community FREEDOM Doesn t Play Well With Conservatism LIBERALISM Organization of Work, The Communist Manifesto C L R N S F
Conservatism The Old Regime Based on Privilege Two Competing Alternatives LIBERALISM SOCIALISM
Conservatism The Old Regime Based on Privilege LIBERALISM SOCIALISM INDIVIDUALISM Every Man For Himself
Conservatism The Old Regime Based on Privilege LIBERALISM SOCIALISM COLLECTIVISM We re All In This Together
Conservatism The Old Regime Based on Privilege LIBERALISM INDIVIDUALISM SOCIALISM COLLECTIVISM
Conservatism The Old Regime Based on Privilege Conservatives and Liberals shared a belief in private property and a fear of socialism LIBERALISM INDIVIDUALISM SOCIALISM COLLECTIVISM
Remember the Ladies
Social Class(es): Buzzwords Mixes Well With Liberalism Socialism Proponent(s) Document(s) FEMINISM WOMEN Gender Privilege Gender Equality Natural Rights Feminists employed these philosophies not to say that Liberals and Socialists were feminists Mary Wollstonecraft John Stuart Mill Doesn t Play Well With Conservatism A Vindication of the Rights of Woman The Subjection of Women C L R N S F