SOCIALISM Flashcards

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Utopian socialists

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Robert Owen (earliest form of socialism)

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Core View on Human Nature

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  • 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
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Core View on Society

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  • 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
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