Socialism

Question 1

Revolution should not come from the BLANK, it should be a BLANK

Answer 1

Vanguard elite, popular movement

Rosa Luxemburg

Question 2

BLANK struggle creates class consciousness needed to overthrow BLANK

Answer 2

Proletariat, bourgeois

Rosa Luxemburg

Question 3

Crosland believed capitalism developed as Marx predicted and now had the required contradictions (e.g. class conflict) needed to inspire revolution. True or false?

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Anthony Giddens was a fan of capitalism but believed the money should go back into society. True or false?

Answer 4

True

Question 5

Which socialist argued for the welfare state to be a starting point?

Answer 5

Beatrice Webb

Question 6

Who created Third Way socialism and which UK PM implemented a government modelled by the Third Way?

Bonus points if you can say why the PM modelled the government on the Third Way

Answer 6

Anthony Giddens and Tony Blair

Giddens was an advisor to Blair and inspired him

Question 7

BLANK has been poisoned by BLANK and has enforced a class system.

Answer 7

Human nature, capitalism

Karl Marx

Question 7

Which socialist is part of the Fabian Society and doesn’t believe in revolution but in introducing socialism through democratic means?

Answer 7

Beatrice Webb

Question 8

Why is evolutionary socialism not possible and which theorist believed that?

Answer 8

Due to the fact that capitalism is based on exploitation and suppression of workers
Rosa Luxemburg

Question 9

Capitalism should not be destroyed, it should be adapted. Who believed this?

Answer 9

Anthony Crosland

Question 10

Beatrice Webb thought state expansion will destroy socialism. True or false?

Answer 10

False.

Question 11

Capitalism must be crushed but democracy must survive to ensure the peoples’ will is enacted were the views of who?

Answer 11

Rosa Luxemburg

Question 13

This theorist believed Keynesian economics which ensures BLANK and BLANK but large welfare spending to ensure egalitarian society. They also believed in BLANK.

Answer 13

Low inflation, continual growth, nationalisation

Anthony Crosland

Question 14

Marx believes human nature prioritises nurture over nature, people are sociable & cooperative and that capitalism leads to workers being alienated from their true self due to the competition capitalism creates. True or false?

Answer 14

True

Question 16

Redistribution can weaken and limit inequality through BLANK. It can work with BLANK.

Answer 16

Keynesian economics, capitalism

Anthony Crosland

Question 17

BLANK is inevitable and socialism can be achieved through BLANK.

Answer 17

Gradualism, democracy and existing institutions

Beatrice Webb

Question 17

Karl Marx, Freidrich Engels and Sigmund Freud influenced which theorist?

Answer 17

Anthony Giddens

Question 18

What would class consciousnesses provide?

Answer 18

Socialist society as workers would recognise oppression and alienation which would lead to strikes and thus lead to revolution
Rosa Luxemburg

Question 18

Who opposed Marx and why?

Answer 18

Beatrice Webb. She believed workers were selfish and uninformed and democracy should be representative. She believed the economic side of socialism would be achieved with a growth in power and reform that would lead to a socialist state - not revolution.

Question 19

How did the creator of Third Way justify it?

Answer 19

Globalisation changed the nature of social democracy and top-down intervention was ineffective and inefficient but there would still be a need for govt. intervention to tackle the inevitable social inequality in society.

Question 20

Major change will only be realised after BLANK is realised. This hasn’t been possible due to BLANK and BLANK.

Answer 20

Class consciousness, nationalism, racism

Karl Marx

Question 22

Anthony Giddens’ four notable academic stages were:

Answer 22

• Outlining a new vision of what sociology is
• Developing structuration
• Focused on impact of modernity of social and personal life
• Turning his attention to problems concerning global and societal evolution

Question 23

Which theorist pushed for state education and comprehensive education for all?

Answer 23

Anthony Crosland

Question 24

State is the tool of the bourgeoisie and like capitalism, it must be crushed as it reinforces the capitalism system, according to who?

Answer 24

Karl Marx

Question 25

BLANK said “death of capitalism is inevitable as capitalism will breed inequality, jealousy and class conflict”

Answer 25

Karl Marx