Socialism - Key Thinkers

Question 1

Condemned capitalism because he believed it is driven by the sin of greed rather than faith in a common humanity.

Answer 1

Tawney

Question 2

Rejected the idea of charitable works in favour of social reform and empowering people through education.

Answer 2

Tawney

Question 3

The Acquisitive Society, 1920

Answer 3

Tawney

Question 4

Equality, 1931

Answer 4

Tawney

Question 5

Saw greater equality as a route to new heights of human achievement.

Answer 5

Tawney

Question 6

Talked about managerialism

Answer 6

Crosland

Question 7

“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.

Answer 7

Crosland

Question 8

Downplayed public ownership of the means of production and instead prioritised the end of poverty and public services.

Answer 8

Crosland

Question 9

Served as Member of Parliament for South Gloucestershire (1950–55)

Answer 9

Crosland

Question 10

Said that the goals of nationalisation and planning were outdated.

Answer 10

Crosland

Question 11

Economic growth plays an important part in the achievement of socialism.

Answer 11

Crosland

Question 12

Greater equality would lead to a “common culture” and a state of fellowship between human beings.

Answer 12

Tawney

Question 13

The capitalist system alienates workers

Answer 13

Marx and Engels

Question 14

Aimed to reconstruct society “in accordance with the highest moral possibilities”

Answer 14

Beatrice Webb

Question 15

Joined the Fabian Society and co-founded the London School of Economics (LSE)

Answer 15

Beatrice Webb

Question 16

“fell in love” with what they found in the USSR

Answer 16

Beatrice and Sidney Webb

Question 17

Religion is the opium of the people.

Answer 17

Marx and Engels

Question 18

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”

Answer 18

Rosa Luxemburg

Question 19

Britain has ceased to be a capitalist country due to the policies implemented by the Attlee government.

Answer 19

Crosland

Question 20

Believed in “new democratic state”

Answer 20

Giddens

Question 21

Emphasised “new mixed economy”

Answer 21

Giddens

Question 22

Believed in “equality as inclusion”

Answer 22

Giddens

Question 23

Emphasised the development of a genuinely “cosmopolitan nation”

Answer 23

Giddens

Question 24

Said that “this dictatorship must be the work of the class and not of a little leading minority in the name of the class”

Answer 24

Luxemburg

Question 25

Coined the phrase ‘evolutionary socialism’

Answer 25

Bernstein

Question 26

Thought that nationalism and social justice could make capitalism fairer.

Answer 26

Bernstein

Question 27

Believed that a “vanguard party” was needed to awaken the revolutionary character of the proletariat and lead them to class consciousness

Answer 27

Lenin

Question 28

Believed in ‘socialism in one country’

Answer 28

Stalin

Question 29

Talked about utopian realism

Answer 29

Giddens

Question 30

“Top down” politics should increasingly be about creating spaces in which people “at the bottom” sort out things for themselves.

Answer 30

Giddens