Beatrice Webb Flashcards
Lived/died
1858-1943
What did she contribute to?
Democratic socialism
How did she intend to counter poverty?
State intervention and trade unionism
How does she differ from other socialists?
Effective reform tends to be gradual rather than revoloutionary
What is the fabian society?
Organisation committed to evoloutionary socialism via reforms made at westminster aligned with the labour party
What did her minority report argue?
The state should guarantee “a sufficient nourishment and training when young, treatment when sick, and modest but secure livelyhood when disabled or aged
What was her 1920 book called?
A constitution for the socialist common wealth of Great Britain
books
Decay of capitalist civilisation 1923
Soviet communism: a new civilisation 1935
What is the inevitability of gradualness
Socialism can be established by parliamentary reforms and law making with policies that look out for the working class
Human nature
Damage of capitalism on human psyche will only be compounded by violent revolution
Humanity needs to be guided back to its original cooperative condition
State
The existing state can be used to effect a gradual transition to socialism
Society
Poverty/inequalities of capitalist society depress people whilst fostering regressive competition
The economy
Capitalist economy will be replaced which rewards workers for their labours based on common ownership
