Socialism

Question 1

What is the term for all individuals receiving the same rewards for their performance?

Answer 1

Absolute Equality

Question 2

What term describes those in society who will end up wealthy and owning the means of production?

Answer 2

Bourgeoise

(bore-shwa-zee)

Question 3

What is the moment when the proletariat realizes they are being exploited?

Answer 3

Class consciousness

Question 4

What term refers to the inevitable battle between differing classes over time?

Answer 4

Class struggle

Question 5

What part of the Labour party constitution aimed for state ownership of industry?

Answer 5

Clause IV (four)

(Amended in 1995 by Tony Blair)

Question 6

What is the term for putting workers and businesses together to work towards a common goal?

Answer 6

Collectivism

Question 7

What is the socialist view that society is a collection of broadly equal individuals?

Answer 7

Common humanity

Question 8

What means that the state and the public have ownership of property and the economy?

Answer 8

Common ownership

Question 9

What is a political system with no private ownership of property?

Answer 9

Communism

Question 10

Who is the key thinker for Social Democracy that thought Marx’s class dialectic was not relevant in post-war Britain?

Answer 10

Crosland

Question 11

What describes a clash of ideas that happens throughout each stage of history?

Answer 11

Dialectic

Question 12

Who helped Marx write the Communist manifesto?

Answer 12

Engels

Question 13

What is the distribution of economic rewards in relation to an individual’s contribution to society?

Answer 13

Equality of Outcome

Question 14

What accepts that society will be unequal but guarantees an equal minimum standard of living?

Answer 14

Equality of welfare

Question 15

What belief holds that socialism can be gradually implemented?

Answer 15

Evolutionary Socialism

Question 16

What is a cherished goal of the labour movement where workers support their key beliefs?

Answer 16

Fraternity

Question 17

Who developed the ‘Third Way’ to update socialism for a global world?

Answer 17

Giddens

Question 18

What is the idea that economic factors are the key driver for changing events?

Answer 18

Historical materialism

Question 19

Who is the revolutionary Socialist that believed capitalism cannot be reformed?

Answer 19

Luxembourg (Rosa)

Question 20

Who is the sociologist and historian that developed ideas of Communism in the 1800s?

Answer 20

Marx

Question 21

What is the ideological set of ideas that believe in the inevitable demise of capitalism by revolution?

Answer 21

Marxism

Question 22

What system combines private and state ownership of businesses and property?

Answer 22

Mixed Economy

Question 23

What term does Marx use to describe the poor majority in society?

Answer 23

Proletariat

Question 24

What does it mean to review or change a political idea?

Answer 24

Revisionism

Question 25

What is the idea that socialism’s core values cannot coexist with capitalism?

Answer 25

Revolutionary Socialism

Question 26

Who was an early Utopian that set up model communities and encouraged cooperative working?

Answer 26

Robert Owen

Question 27

What are the ideas of Crosland that value social justice above common ownership?

Answer 27

Social Democracy

Question 28

What is the idea that there is a moral justification to redistribute wealth?

Answer 28

Social justice

Question 29

What is it called when the government plans the economy and sets targets?

Answer 29

State planning

Question 30

What developed in the 1990s from work by Giddens and embraced some neo-liberal ideas?

Answer 30

The Third Way

Question 31

What is socialism achieved by the moral persuasion of capitalists to surrender the means of production?

Answer 31

Utopian socialism

Question 32

Who is the evolutionary Socialist thinker that believed socialism would occur via political action?

Answer 32

Webb (Beatrice)

Question 33

What is a society whose principal object is the promotion of the welfare of the public?

Answer 33

Welfare society