1/9 class

• Radicals are done with conservatism- elite group
• 3 things
• Socialism- social equality, most willing to revolt in unity to get it
• Yes, they want more power than they currently have
• Don’t want to reform→ replace
• (most important) Marxist Socialism
• Wants to replace Capitalism with Communism
• Believed capitalism is unfair
• Bourgeois takes advantage of Proletariat which causes inequality
• Nationalism
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• How is nationalism created?
• Banded together over common culture and
• In Hapsburg empire, the minorities want to be their own nation
• The Germanic states and Spain had nationalism that was created
• Fervor- people got excited about relating to their fellow country men especially after the napoleonic wars and they were united culturally
• the nationalist fervor just wanted to define those “imagined communities” of people who were culturally and linguistically similar

• Liberalism
• A “dull tool”
• It is radical for its time
• Radical to Metternich, he fears liberalism and tries to prevent it
• Why is it the least radical of the 3?
• Wants to change society completely
• The imagined communities
• Ethnic parades and celebrations occurred to boost nationalism
• Karl Marxismn
• Thought nationalism was an opiate (similar to religion)
• Socialism is more radical because nationalism is social and cultural where marxism is more of an economic change even though national and social parts to it too