A forgotten anniversary: on the evaluation of Robert Owen’s activities one hundred years ago and now
This year the world celebrated the 250th anniversary of the birth of the British social reformer Robert Owen. Within the framework of communist ideology, Owen was ranked among the utopian socialists, whose works acted as a source and an integral part of Marxism. Now we began to look at Owen’s activities more broadly, seeing in it the beginnings of proposals for the development of cooperative and trade union movements, the theory of labor organization and a complex of concepts of education and upbringing.