Socialism key thinkers
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- Created on: 21-05-22 13:05
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- Socialism
- Marx and engels - revolutionary
- HUMAN NATURE - we are fraternal and altruistic but we have been damaged by capitalism
- SOCIETY - capitalist society is defined by classes and communist society will be the perfect end of history
- equality of outcome
- STATE - capitalism must be destroyed
- inevitable that we will reach class consciousness and and eventually state will wither away until there is communist society
- ECONOMY - capitalsim is corrupt, inefficient and self destructive and should be repled with collective ownership
- Rosa Luxembourg - revolutionary
- HUMAN NATURE - not damaged to Marx's extent and fraternalism and altruism still flourish in working class communities
- SOCIETY - capitalist society is class riddena and believes in equlity of outcome
- STATE - state should be destroyed arisin from state action
- replacement should be real democracy, free speech and elections
- Capitalism is resilient and destruction will require a replacement economy based on workers control
- she wants the processes to speed up to avoid the oppression that marx says is coming from capitalism
- Beatrice webb - social democrat
- HUMAN NATURE - revolution will not help human nature that has been tainted by capitalism
- needs to be guided back gradually to its cooperative condition
- SOCIETY - poverty and inequality of capitalist society continues to depress human potential and fosters regressive competition
- reforms using existing democratic system like universal suffrage
- STATE - expansion of state needs to plan and reinforce reforms of society for enlightenment
- ECONOMY - a chaotic capitalist eonomy will gradually be replaced by which is based on common ownership
- we should use capitalism to be elected into the system to reform from within
- equlity of outcome
- HUMAN NATURE - revolution will not help human nature that has been tainted by capitalism
- Anthony Crosland - social democracy
- HUMAN NATURE - fairness and objection to inequalities of outcome but less focused on collectivism
- SOCIETY - not as binary as marx says so class divisions are as prominent
- equality of opportunity
- ECONOMY - mixed economy with increase in public spending
- keep capitalism but reform it
- Anthony Giddens - third way
- HUMAN NATURE - shaped by socio economic conditions ad pro fairness now competes with individual aspirations also
- SOCIETY - undergone embourgeoisement and egalitaarians must harness rather than deny these forces
- Equality of opportunity
- STATE - Roll back the state and invest in infrastructure and education
- ECONOMY - free markets where state isn't involved in economy so competitiveness happens
- Marx and engels - revolutionary
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