Saturday, October 28, 2017

History of the Terms 'Socialist' and 'Socialism'

In CR Fay's book, 'Life and Labour in The Nineteenth Century', Co-operative Socialism became the evolved name for Owenite Socialism.

See at page 70 in Chapter VII, 'The Origins of Britiash Socialism':

https://archive.org/stream/lifelabourinnine00faycuoft#page/n14/mode/1up

Thanks Gillian Lonergan at The Co-operative College for this URL!

Incidentally, the earlist written indication of the work 'socialist' seems to be 1822.

See ref 8 at:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_socialism

"socialist". Oxford English Dictionary (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. September 2005. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.): "1822 E.Cowper Let. to Robert Owen 2 Nov. in Revue d'Histoire Economique & Sociale (1957) 35 80 [She] seems well adapted to become what my friend Jo. Applegath calls a Socialist."

While another early reference to the word 'socialist' is in a letter to Robert Owens' brother, William, in 1824: see pages 69-70 in the CR Fay book, 'Life . . ' referred to earlier:

https://archive.org/stream/lifelabourinnine00faycuoft#page/69/mode/1up

Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Emotions, Politics and Personalities

Ps, the Political Compass map is as below.







In a ppt called 'Emotions, Politics and Personalities' in the papers'section at www.interestfreemoney.org I yry to relate each quadrant to an emotional state.

Please note, if reading that, two things:

A) I flip the horizontal axis so that the two Progressive quadrants (ie the two Left quadrants on the Political Compass map, red and green) are on the right-hand side of the page. That way, a reading across the page reads from Reactionary to Progressive;

B) I like the True Colors approach, which scores each of us as a blend of all four quadrants. This reflects our mixes if all emotions and may be related to the four brain/neuro-active molecules that Helen Fisher suggests may be rekated to 'each' Personality Type (see the Emotions, etc ppt referred to above);

Well, three things:

C) Finally, there's something that I've yet to get to the bottom of. And that's the observation that, a bit like a Rubrick's Cube twist, the two haves of these maps often seem to twist about the verical axis: so that, in the Political Compass map, as below, purple ends up next to red and blue next to green . . . Odd . . .something related to bipolar, scitsophrenia (sp?) Conditions, perhaps?