Socialism Flashcards
What is the term for all individuals receiving the same rewards for their performance?
Absolute Equality
What term describes those in society who will end up wealthy and owning the means of production?
Bourgeoise
(bore-shwa-zee)
What is the moment when the proletariat realizes they are being exploited?
Class consciousness
What term refers to the inevitable battle between differing classes over time?
Class struggle
What part of the Labour party constitution aimed for state ownership of industry?
Clause IV (four)
(Amended in 1995 by Tony Blair)
What is the term for putting workers and businesses together to work towards a common goal?
Collectivism
What is the socialist view that society is a collection of broadly equal individuals?
Common humanity
What means that the state and the public have ownership of property and the economy?
Common ownership
What is a political system with no private ownership of property?
Communism
Who is the key thinker for Social Democracy that thought Marx’s class dialectic was not relevant in post-war Britain?
Crosland
What describes a clash of ideas that happens throughout each stage of history?
Dialectic
Who helped Marx write the Communist manifesto?
Engels
What is the distribution of economic rewards in relation to an individual’s contribution to society?
Equality of Outcome
What accepts that society will be unequal but guarantees an equal minimum standard of living?
Equality of welfare
What belief holds that socialism can be gradually implemented?
Evolutionary Socialism
What is a cherished goal of the labour movement where workers support their key beliefs?
Fraternity
Who developed the ‘Third Way’ to update socialism for a global world?
Giddens
What is the idea that economic factors are the key driver for changing events?
Historical materialism
Who is the revolutionary Socialist that believed capitalism cannot be reformed?
Luxembourg (Rosa)
Who is the sociologist and historian that developed ideas of Communism in the 1800s?
Marx
What is the ideological set of ideas that believe in the inevitable demise of capitalism by revolution?
Marxism
What system combines private and state ownership of businesses and property?
Mixed Economy
What term does Marx use to describe the poor majority in society?
Proletariat
What does it mean to review or change a political idea?
Revisionism