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In 1839, French writer and activist Flora Tristán traveled to London to observe firsthand the capital of the first modern industrial nation in the world. In Promenades dans Londres, she recounts the four months she spent visiting both those areas of the city the tourists avoided (and a few places she could only enter disguised as a man)workshops and brothels, working-class neighborhoods and factories, asylums and jailsas well as the haunts of the bourgeoisie: Parliament, the horse races at Ascot, and private clubs. Her resulting diatribe against the inequalities she witnessed, and the aristocrats and capitalist system she held responsible for perpetuating injustice, would become one of the fundamental texts of the early socialist movement and go on to influence Karl Marx, among others. En 1839, la escritora y activista francesa Flora Tristán viajó a Londres para observar de primera mano la capital del primer país industrial moderno del mundo. En Promenades dans Londres, cuenta los cuatro meses que pasó visitando tanto aquellos lugares de la ciudad poco frecuentadas por los turistas (y algunos dónde sólo podía entrar disfrazada de hombre)talleres y prostíbulos, barrios marginales y fábricas, manicomios y cárcelesasí como los lugares que frecuentaba la burguesía: el parlamento, las carreras hípicas de Ascot y los clubes privados. Su diatriba resultante contra las desigualdades que presenció, y los aristócratas y el sistema capitalista a quienes hizo responsable de perpetuar la injusticia, se convertiría en uno de los textos fundamentales del movimiento socialista incipiente e influiría a Karl Marx, entre otros.… (plus d'informations)
Flora Tristan was quite a woman, and as her life was not typical of her time (or any time for that matter), so this travel book is not typical of travel books in general. She visited London three times to gather support for her conviction that the English aristocracy cared for nothing but material wealth and abused the rest of the populace in order to acquire it. She hoped to warn the rest of Europe away from English practice. Here you will find no descriptions of historical monuments or visits in stately homes. Instead, Flora used every wile in her arsenal to get into the prisons, infant schools, and poor neighborhoods of what she called "The Monster City." She even disguised herself as a Turkish man to get into both houses of Parliament. I find it sad that many of her commenaries could have been written yesterday as easily as 160 years ago. In a typical passage Flora writes,"---hunger is not the only reason for attacks on property. Since in our society money can satisfy every passion and surmount every obstacle, since money is a substitute for talent, honour and probity, since money opens every door, then man will stop at nothing to acquire it. Nobody is content with his position in life, everybody seeks to rise in the world; and the crimes committed in the name of this universal ambition are incalculable." That gives a feeling for her prose. She becomes shrill in her denunciation of the English as a nation. She is a vocal socialist and feminist, and her work rewards a history student. The casual reader hoping for a balanced look at London in the 1830's will be disappointed. ( )
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'We must either find an effective remedy for the scourge of poverty or be prepared for a worldwid upheaval, for poverty may have greater power to destroy society today than slavery had in pagan times.' Eugène Buret, The Poverty of the Working Classes in England and France (1840) (Flora's dedication)
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In memoroy of my Mother, May Holtum (1906-1976) (Translator's dedictaion)
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What an enormous city London is!
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Oh, lords! Repent, fear the vengeance of the people, appease their wath, and be mindful of the saying, as old as the world; 'vox populi, vox Dei!'
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In 1839, French writer and activist Flora Tristán traveled to London to observe firsthand the capital of the first modern industrial nation in the world. In Promenades dans Londres, she recounts the four months she spent visiting both those areas of the city the tourists avoided (and a few places she could only enter disguised as a man)workshops and brothels, working-class neighborhoods and factories, asylums and jailsas well as the haunts of the bourgeoisie: Parliament, the horse races at Ascot, and private clubs. Her resulting diatribe against the inequalities she witnessed, and the aristocrats and capitalist system she held responsible for perpetuating injustice, would become one of the fundamental texts of the early socialist movement and go on to influence Karl Marx, among others. En 1839, la escritora y activista francesa Flora Tristán viajó a Londres para observar de primera mano la capital del primer país industrial moderno del mundo. En Promenades dans Londres, cuenta los cuatro meses que pasó visitando tanto aquellos lugares de la ciudad poco frecuentadas por los turistas (y algunos dónde sólo podía entrar disfrazada de hombre)talleres y prostíbulos, barrios marginales y fábricas, manicomios y cárcelesasí como los lugares que frecuentaba la burguesía: el parlamento, las carreras hípicas de Ascot y los clubes privados. Su diatriba resultante contra las desigualdades que presenció, y los aristócratas y el sistema capitalista a quienes hizo responsable de perpetuar la injusticia, se convertiría en uno de los textos fundamentales del movimiento socialista incipiente e influiría a Karl Marx, entre otros.
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I find it sad that many of her commenaries could have been written yesterday as easily as 160 years ago. In a typical passage Flora writes,"---hunger is not the only reason for attacks on property. Since in our society money can satisfy every passion and surmount every obstacle, since money is a substitute for talent, honour and probity, since money opens every door, then man will stop at nothing to acquire it. Nobody is content with his position in life, everybody seeks to rise in the world; and the crimes committed in the name of this universal ambition are incalculable." That gives a feeling for her prose. She becomes shrill in her denunciation of the English as a nation. She is a vocal socialist and feminist, and her work rewards a history student. The casual reader hoping for a balanced look at London in the 1830's will be disappointed. (