BEATRICE WEBB Flashcards

1
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How many socialist principles did Webb have?

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4

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What was Webb’s first principle?

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Capitalism was the principle causes of ‘crippling poverty and demeaning inequality’ and a ‘corrupting force’, fostering ‘unnatural’ levels of avarice and selfishness

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What was Webb’s second principle?

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Neither paternalism nor philanthropist was a sustainable solution to poverty and inequality

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What was Webb’s third principle?

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Poverty and inequality were most likely elevated through trade unionism and state intervention

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What was Webb’s fourth principle?

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Effective reform tends to be gradual rather than revolutionary

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What organisation, that was committed to evolutionary socialism, was Webb part of?

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Fabian Society

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7
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What party did Webb and the organisation that she was involved in part of?

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Labour Party

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What clause in 1918 did Webb and the organisation she joined helped draft?

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Clause IV of Labours Constitution (commit Labour to ‘common ownership’ but pursuing by the existing political system)

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Between 1905 and 1909 what did the Royal Commission Webb served on examine?

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The state’s approach to poverty

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10
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What is Webb’s celebrated work?

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Her Minority Report

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What did Webbs highlighted work say the State should guarantee?

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‘A sufficient nourishment and training when young, a living wage when able-bodied, treatment when sick and modest but secure livelihood when disabled or aged’

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Which report in 1942 said a lot of the same stuff as Webb had highlighted?

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Beveridge Report

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13
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What type of socialist was Webb called?

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Democratic Socialist

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14
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Webb’s view of human nature

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The damage inflicted by capitalism upon the human psyche will be compounded only by violent revolution. Humanity needs to be guided to its original cooperative condition

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Webb’s view of the state

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If harnessed to universal suffrage, the existing state could be used to effect a gradual transition to socialism

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16
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Webbs’ view of society

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The poverty and inequalities of a capitalist society continue to depress human potential while fostering regressive competition

17
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Webb’s view of the economy

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A chaotic capitalist economy will gradually be replaced by one which secures for the workers the full fruits of their labour, based upon a common ownership of the means of production