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Socialism Flashcards

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Who states that the state ‘if harnessed to universal suffrage could be used to effect a gradual change to socialism’?

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Beatrice Webb

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Who states that the state ‘is a capitalist tool and must be destroyed by revolution’?

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Marx and Engels

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Who states that the state ‘should be improved by redistribution and decentralisation of political power whilst encouraging greater political participation’?

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Anthony Giddens

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Who states that the state ‘must be crushed by revolution arising from strike action and not class consciousness’?

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Rosa Luxemburg

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Who states that the ‘existing state can be used to exert radical, socialist change’

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Antony Crosland

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What is Marx and Engels’ view on the economy?

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Capitalism = corrupt, inefficient, self-destructive

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What is Luxemburg’s theory on the economy?

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Capitalism’s necessary destruction is through the replacement of the economy based on worker’s control

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What is Webb’s view on the economy?

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A capitalist society will be replaced by one for the benefit of the workers based on common ownership

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What is Anthony Gidden’s view on the economy?

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He wants a ‘mixed economy underpinned by limited public ownership and Keynesian ethics’

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What is Crosland’s view on the economy?

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Neoliberal economy propelled by privatisation and deregulation

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What are the different theories of socialism

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Revolution v Evolution

Fundamentalism v Revisionism

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What caused the revolution/evolutionary split

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turn of the 20th century - ‘best road for socialism?’

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What did revolutionaries believe

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  • the working class - many didn’t have the vote
  • the state was a tool of the bourgeoisie and would protect their interests
  • a working-class uprising was arguably direct democracy from the people
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Who were revolutionary socialists

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Luxemburg and Marx/ Engels

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What did evolutionaries believe

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  • ‘inevitability of gradualism’
  • working-class were beginning to get the vote - therefore parliamentary road became possible
  • as workers got the vote - they would be the majority
  • as socialists parties (who represent their best interest) came into power - the could implement their systems
  • also the state was no longer an ‘irredeemable agent of the bourgeois class
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Who were evolutionary socialists

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The Webbs

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What is the fundamentalist/ revisionism split

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concerning the ends rather than the means - fundamentalism rejects capitalism outright whereas revisionism accepts capitalism to an extent

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Crosland’s main work

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The Future of Socialism (1956) - defended state-managed capitalism

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What did Giddens say about socialism

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‘socialism is as dead as an economic doctrine’

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What is social democracy - how does it differ from classic socialism

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mixed economic, social welfare and moderate reform towards greater social justice and equality of opportunity rather than common ownership and equality of outcome

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What did Giddens create

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The Third Way - fused neo-liberal economic policies with centre-left social policies

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What is Fraternity

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The bonds of comradeship between human beings.

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What is Co-operation

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Working collectively to achieve mutual benefits.

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`What is Capitalism

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An economic system, organised by the market, where goods are produced for profit and wealth is privately owned.

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What is Common ownership

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Is the common ownership of the means of production so that all are able to benefit from the wealth of society and to participate in its running.

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What is Communism

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The communal organisation of social existence based on the common ownership of wealth.

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What is Evolutionary socialism

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A parliamentary route, which would deliver a long-term, radical transformation in a gradual, piecemeal way through legal and peaceful means, via the state.

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What is Marxism

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An ideological system, within socialism, that drew on the writings of Marx and Engels and has at its core a philosophy of history that explains why it is inevitable that capitalism will be replaced by communism.

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What is Revisionism

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A move to re-define socialism that involves a less radical view of capitalism and a reformed view of socialism.

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What is Social justice

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A distribution of wealth that is morally justifiable and implies a desire to limit inequality.

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What is Class consciousness

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The self-understanding of social class that is a historical phenomenon, created out of collective struggle.

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What is Historical materialism

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Marxist theory that the economic base (the economic system) forms the superstructure (culture, politics, law, ideology, religion, art and social consciousness).

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What is ‘Dialectic’

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A process of development that occurs through the conflict between two opposing forces. In Marxism, class conflict creates internal contradictions within society, which drives historical change.

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What is Keynesian economics - think empire

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Government intervention – can stabilise the economy and aims to deliver full employment and price stability.

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What is economic determinism

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That behavuo=iour has been distorted by our economic system - ‘false consciousness’ as Marx and Engels would call it

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What does a democratic socialist believe

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That change to the economic system should come on the basis of a mandate through parliamentary elections of the socialist party - Webb

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What is the belief in collectivism

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That collective human effort is of greater practical value than individuals in society

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