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6. What is the socialist view on private property?

  • Seen as an important expression of individual freedms/natural rigths
  • Skoopyboopy
  • Seen as unjust, morally corrupt, and causes conflict
  • Seen as creating a stake in society, responsibility, respect

7. How did Marx hope to end class?

  • False conciousness
  • Cultural hegemony
  • Class conciousness
  • Class unconciousness

8. Where has common ownership been seen?

  • Corbyn's 2017 manifesto
  • Right to Buy scheme by Thatcher
  • Soviet Russia 1930s collectivisation of farms, Clause IV
  • Mansion tax by Miliband

9. Which socialists advocate absolute equality/egalitarianism?

  • Social democracts
  • Evolutionary socialists
  • Marxist/fundamental socialists
  • Reformist socialists

10. Which divison of socialism hopes to narrow rather than eradicate class divisons?

  • ThirdWay socialists
  • Social democrats
  • Fundamental socialists
  • Revionist socialists

11. Give an example of a producer co-op

  • Poundland
  • The 'Co-Op' group in Britain - members set strategy/share profits
  • Mondragon Corporation in Northern Spain - workers own/manage enterprise
  • The Tate museums - members set strategy/share profits

12. Why do socialists believe in the community?

  • Creates more profit
  • We are social creatures, importance of collectivism
  • They don't - "there is no such thing as society"
  • Allows for exploitation of workers

13. What type of equality do socialists favour?

  • Equality of outcome
  • Inequality
  • Equality of opportunity
  • Equality of inclusion

14. Where has the socialist view on community been expressed?

  • Utopian societies eg New Lanark, Ujaama in Africa
  • 19th century democracy
  • Thatcher's belief that "there is no such thing as society"
  • Exploitation of workers in the industrial revolution

15. Which socialists advocate relative social equality (eg more for the poor)?

  • Reformist socialists
  • Social democrats
  • Marxist/fundamental socialists
  • Evolutionary socialists

16. What did Marx see as the contradiciton of Capitalism?

  • Bourgeoisie and Proletariat
  • Comrade and ally
  • Bourgeoisie and workers
  • Proletariat and aristocracy

17. 3 reasons for socialist pursuit of equality

  • Helps to foster better human connections
  • Upholds justice, underpins community, need-satisfaction
  • Leads to exploitation, racism
  • Upholds immoral ideals, disunites country