Socialism - Key Thinkers Flashcards
Condemned capitalism because he believed it is driven by the sin of greed rather than faith in a common humanity.
Tawney
Rejected the idea of charitable works in favour of social reform and empowering people through education.
Tawney
The Acquisitive Society, 1920
Tawney
Equality, 1931
Tawney
Saw greater equality as a route to new heights of human achievement.
Tawney
Talked about managerialism
Crosland
“If it’s the last thing I do, I’m going to destroy every f***ing grammar school in England. And Wales and Northern Ireland.
Crosland
Downplayed public ownership of the means of production and instead prioritised the end of poverty and public services.
Crosland
Served as Member of Parliament for South Gloucestershire (1950–55)
Crosland
Said that the goals of nationalisation and planning were outdated.
Crosland
Economic growth plays an important part in the achievement of socialism.
Crosland
Greater equality would lead to a “common culture” and a state of fellowship between human beings.
Tawney
The capitalist system alienates workers
Marx and Engels
Aimed to reconstruct society “in accordance with the highest moral possibilities”
Beatrice Webb
Joined the Fabian Society and co-founded the London School of Economics (LSE)
Beatrice Webb
“fell in love” with what they found in the USSR
Beatrice and Sidney Webb
Religion is the opium of the people.
Marx and Engels
She believed the dictatorship of the proletariat that “this dictatorship must be the work of the class and not of a little leading minority in the name of the class”
Rosa Luxemburg
Britain has ceased to be a capitalist country due to the policies implemented by the Attlee government.
Crosland
Believed in “new democratic state”
Giddens
Emphasised “new mixed economy”
Giddens
Believed in “equality as inclusion”
Giddens
Emphasised the development of a genuinely “cosmopolitan nation”
Giddens
Said that “this dictatorship must be the work of the class and not of a little leading minority in the name of the class”
Luxemburg
Coined the phrase ‘evolutionary socialism’
Bernstein
Thought that nationalism and social justice could make capitalism fairer.
Bernstein
Believed that a “vanguard party” was needed to awaken the revolutionary character of the proletariat and lead them to class consciousness
Lenin
Believed in ‘socialism in one country’
Stalin
Talked about utopian realism
Giddens
“Top down” politics should increasingly be about creating spaces in which people “at the bottom” sort out things for themselves.
Giddens
