Socialism Key Thinkers Flashcards
What 4 types of socialist are there?
Revolutionary/Evolutionary, Revisionist/Fundamentalist
What is Marx and Engels’ view on Human nature?
It has been contaminated by capitalism instilling a false consciousness of bourgeoise values
What is Luxemburg’s view on human nature?
Fraternity and altruism flourish in socialist communities punished by capitalist economies
What is Beatrice Webb’s view on human nature?
Only violent revolution can truly show the damage that capitalism has conflicted on the soul
What is Anthony Crosland’s view on human nature?
Sense of fairness and objection to inequality of outcome
What is Anthony Gidden’s view on human nature?
Human nature has been shaped by changing socio-economic factors
Who states that the state ‘is a capitalist tool and must be destroyed by revolution’?
Marx and Engels
Who states that the state ‘if harnessed to universal suffrage could be used to effect a gradual change to socialism’?
Beatrice Webb
Who states that the state ‘should be improved by redistribution and decentralisation of political power whilst encouraging greater political participation’?
Anthony Giddens
Who states that the state ‘must be crushed by revolution arising from strike action and not class consciousness’?
Rosa Luxemburg
Who states that the ‘existing state can be used to exert radical, socialist change’
Antony Crosland
What is Marx and Engels’ view on the economy?
Capitalism = corrupt, inefficient, self-destructive
What is Luxemburg’s theory on the economy?
Capitalism’s necessary destruction is through the replacement of the economy based on worker’s control
What is Webb’s view on the economy?
A capitalist society will be replaced by one for the benefit of the workers based on common ownership
What is Anthony Gidden’s view on the economy?
He wants a ‘mixed economy underpinned by limited public ownership and Keynesian ethics’
What is Crosland’s view on the economy?
Neoliberal economy propelled by privatisation and deregulation
Who states that society is ‘defined by class interests and class conflict which is bad’?
Marx and Engels
Who states that society is ‘increasingly complex, altered by the emergence of new social groups’
Anthony Crosland
Who states that in society, ‘poverty and inequality in a capitalist society continue to depress human potential whilst fostering regressive competition’?
Beatrice Webb
Who states that ‘capitalist society is class ridden and indefensible yet they still exist in downtrodden socialist societies’
Luxemburg
