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'''Chartism''', was a movement for political reform in the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland|United Kingdom]] from 1838 to 1857, campaigning to allow all men in the country to vote at a time when only property owners were allowed a vote. | '''Chartism''', was a movement for political reform in the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland|United Kingdom]] from 1838 to 1857, campaigning to allow all men in the country to vote at a time when only property owners were allowed a vote. | ||
[[Vladimir Lenin]] described chartism as: “the first broad, truly mass and politically organised proletarian revolutionary movement”.<ref>{{Citation|last=Lenin|first=Vladimir|year=1919|title=The Third International and Its Place in History|title-url=https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1919/apr/15.htm|publisher=Progress Publishers|series=Lenin’s Collected Works|volume=29}}</ref> | |||
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Chartism, was a movement for political reform in the United Kingdom from 1838 to 1857, campaigning to allow all men in the country to vote at a time when only property owners were allowed a vote.
Vladimir Lenin described chartism as: “the first broad, truly mass and politically organised proletarian revolutionary movement”.[1]
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- ↑ Lenin, Vladimir (1919). The Third International and Its Place in History. Lenin’s Collected Works, vol.29. Progress Publishers.