Political Systems: Socialism & Conservatism
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- Created on: 26-12-16 19:45
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- Conservatism
- Equality
- inequality is natural
- can't be changed
- class system is inevitable
- all born to unequal circumstances
- inequality is natural
- Government
- big government = bad government
- little government interference
- Margaret Thatcher
- "There are individuals and there are families. No such things as society"
- People are obliged to obey
- rulers know what is best for the people
- paternalistic
- father figure
- big government = bad government
- Individual
- should have more choices and opportunities
- private life is not concern of the state
- barrier between public and private life
- no generation should be so rash as to consider themselves superior to their predecessors
- traditional
- Property
- divide between Bourgeois and Proletariat
- opposed common ownership
- right to buy scheme
- resistance to high property taxes
- Human Nature
- inequality is natural
- gradual change
- boat analogy
- not fully flexible to change
- Catholic Church
- original sin
- inherently flawed
- original sin
- selfish; untrustworthy; self-seeking; feckless
- Political Systems
- Socialism
- Human Nature
- people are fundamentally equal
- everyone is born into different circumstances
- selfishness is unnatural
- Marx
- human nature was expressed in a drive to spontaneously and creatively produce in a manner conductive to social and individual satisfaction
- Individual
- collectivist
- open to idea of radical change
- revolution
- achieve goals collectively
- "society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which individuals stand"
- Equality
- potential to take any position
- all born with equal rights
- both justice and access to power
- from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs
- Government
- utopian
- big government
- workers should have more power which should be regulated
- "under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no-one governing" - Lenin
- Marx Revolution
- Lenin (French Revolution)
- Property
- used to exploit the working class
- "the the theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all Private Property" - Karl Marx
- used to exploit the working class
- Human Nature
- Socialism
- Equality
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