SOCIALISM

Question 1

Utopian socialists

Answer 1

Robert Owen (earliest form of socialism)

Question 2

Core View on Human Nature

Answer 2

• Optimistic view of human nature
• liberalism takes optimistic view of how it is but soc sees it as what it could be
• humans are malleable and plastic and not fixed at birth

Question 3

Core View on Society

Answer 3

• unlike liberalism socialists see individuals as the product of society
• socialists skeptics of liberal master of our own fate and say fulfilling potential depends on the nature of society
• ## after industrial revolution classes were central to an individuals fate