Favorite century?

[The Idler]

Socialists of revleft, what is your favorite century and why?

[Brutus]

19th century. We had the German ideology, Capital, The Communist Manifesto, The Erfurt Programme, Paris Commune, founding of the first workers' party by Lassalle, the founding of the SPD, the Emancipation of Labour group, Wilhelm Liebknecht, August Bebel, Karl Kautsky, the big men themselves, the 1848 revolutions, etc.

Obviously the best century.

[Nevsky]

Difficult, if not impossible to say. If i got this poll right, it's about the history of ideas and identity of the developed western world?

[Jimmie Higgins]

20th century because there is pop-culture as well as modern art. 21st century - too early to tell.

As far as history and the working class goes, well I guess the only real choices are the 19th and the 20th. The 20th century had the highest highs and the lowest lows. Movements as great as the Paris Commune in multiple places in the 20th century, but tons of death, imperialism, atomic bombs, counter-revolutions and fascism.

[Flying Purple People Eater]

How the hell can anybody vote for anything other than the 21st century?

Enjoy working every day of your life, sending your children to work in factories, getting vouchers for bread and sawdust instead of pay and living to thirty. :rolleyes:

[Teacher]

20th century is the most interesting to me. So many triumphs and tragedies and rapid changes.

[Comrade Samuel]

20th but when I say 'favorite' I mean that I enjoy studying it. I doubt anybody with an ounce of sense in them would actually want to live at any other time than right now (glorious communist future exempt due to it not occurring in the past).

[Goblin]

My favorite is the 20th century because of bolshevism, and all that were to follow that. I also really like the 18th century. The french and american revolutions, and a lot of awesome philosophy.

[d3crypt]

20th century because of the music :grin:

[Comrade Jacob]

I can't be sure. 20th century sounds right but with the eastern-block, Yeltsin and the restoration of capitalism in China it makes it hard.

[John Lennin]

None and all of them.
Every Century has its ups and downs.
The 18th had the enlightenment, the 19th had the birth of modern socialism, the 20th had revolutions and their failure, the 21st has us and the 30000021st will have the collision of the andromeda galaxy and the milky way.

[Goblin]

Mid 19th-century - early 20th-century also means a lot to me, because of all the great literature that was coming out during that period, especially that from Norway and Russia.

[Invader Zim]

Well, I work on the 20th century, but probably the 18th.

[The real Fabians]

I don't believe i can pass a true judgement of what is my favorite century unless i experienced all of them and seen what life was truly like for an individual in society.

The 21st century is our future and many believe that it could be the defing century for the continuation of the human race so i voted this one.

[Klaatu]

I have always been interested in medieval European history from the 5th to the 15th century. (Fall of the Roman Empire to the Renaissance)

[Vostok17]

The 19th Century was interesting. I like the utopian experiments in America for their idealism. And, there were so rather profound revolutionary thinkers in Europe at that time. But, you have probably heard of them...

[Brandon's Impotent Rage]

The cool thing about the 19th century is that you could be a writer and get the type of acclaim and attention that these days only movie stars can get.

I mean seriously, have you ever read the accounts of Charles Dickens' tour of America? You can really only compare it to Beatlemania. He was mobbed wherever he went by young women.

[Geiseric]

Definately the 1st century BC, I mean we have the roman conquest of germany, the third servile war with spartacus, the conquest of jerusalem by pompey, the fun was endless.

[Petrol Bomb]

The 21st century, because I suspect this century will be the turning point of Humans as a species. For better, or for worse. And this century is where we will leave our mark.

[Kingfish]

20th Century although that might just be because I am more familiar with all the interesting events and individuals that defined it.

[EdvardK]

20th century because of the music :grin:
I agree - Whitesnake and Van Halen rule :)

[goalkeeper]

the 17th century is pretty interesting. Eric Hobsbawm and others have called it a period of "general crisis". It had the 30 years war in the German lands, Civil War in Britain and to a lesser extent France, revolts in other parts of Europe, etc etc

[Rafiq]

The 21st century shouldn't count. It's like judging the 20th century by the first thirteen years.

[baronci]

If I had to pick one I'd probably go with the 15th century, though I like the entire medieval and Renaissance period. Political biases don't get in the way of historical study like they do with modern periods.

[Stalinist Speaker]

Soviet union up to 1953!

[rylasasin]

3000s...
... because it's Sci-Fi.

[Red Economist]

18th century, because I associate the enlightenment with being optimistic about the future of mankind and find the social effects of industrialization, world wars and neo-liberalism deeply depressing.

[EdvardK]

I do not want to trash every person's wishes and I'm aware this is just a fantasy, but do those of you who wish to live in the 15th or 18th century know that there was no internet, no mass media, no CNN back there? And that you'd probably have learned of some major war only once it was over as the news did not travel fast? :)