socialism agreements

Question 1

types of socialism?

Answer 1

• marxism
• marxist leninism
• democratic socialism (webb)
• social democracy (crossland)
• third way (giddens)

Question 2

agreements over human nature

Answer 2

• all agree that human nature is moulded by economic fources (economic determinism)
• all agree that human nature can be imporved via the transformation of the economy
• all agree that humans are naturally able to work together and want tobe communal but capitalism prevents this

Question 3

agreement over society

Answer 3

• all agree that there should be some form of social justice and equlaity in soicety
• all committed to an equality of outcome
• most agree that collectivism and working together is better than indivdualism it is more effective
• all agree that there are class struggles in society and that there needs to be less of a class issue

Question 4

agreement over the state

Answer 4

all agree that the government needs to have involvement in the economy in order to redistibute wealth to ensure equality

Question 5

agreement over the economy

Answer 5

• all critique capitalism on the basis that it created exploitation and alientation of the working classes but disagree over how capitalism should be fixed
• sharing of common goals can be acieved through equal disitbution of wealth
• most aim for common or public ownership so government can redistribute resources fairly

Question 6

marx

Answer 6

• beleives in a disalctic conflict wheer the protelariat will fall out of their flase class counciousness and will uprise and overthrow the rulling classes. there will then be a dictarrship of the proletariat and evetually socialsim and common ownership will previal

Question 7

webb

Answer 7

committed to the idea that a parlaimetnary democracy can be used to overthrown capitalism if it is ran by the owrking classes it cna gradually overturn that lwas that protected capitalisma dn eventually lead to socialsim

was a member of the fabian scoiety and key in creating clause 4 of the labour party manifesto which committed itsself to nationalation of indisurty

Question 8

crossland

Answer 8

beleives that a normal parlaimentary democracy would be all that is needed to pass laws for the common good

was focused on the compehensivisation of the education system which would allow for more equality of outcomes giving everyone the shame chance of succses

Question 9

giddens

Answer 9

instrumnetal in helping blair create new labour policies

combined idea of using socialism policies as well as free market economics to drive up standards and push the working classes to not rely on state benefits

got rid of clause 4