socialism key thinker flashcards

what did webb say about workers control in clause iv?

“common ownership of the means of production”→ sought to replace capitalism with socialism by taking back the means of production from the bourgeoisie→ common ownership

what did marx say about historic materialism in terms of economic circumstances?

that someone’s economic circumstances determines their social circumstances→ “mankind must first of all eat, drink and have shelter and therefore must work before it can pursue politics and art”

what did marx say about the ruling class and their ideals in terms of the base and superstructure model?

“the ideas of the ruling class are in every age the ruling ideas”

what did marx and engels say in the communist manifesto about class struggle?

“the history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of the class struggle”

what did marx say about production in a capitalist society?

“production without regard to the limits of the market lies in the nature of capitalist production”

what did marx say about capitalism?

“capitalism contains within itself its own destruction”

what did Luxembourg say about the revolution the proletariat needed to have?

“the proletrait requires a high degree of political edcuation, of class conciousness and organization”

what did engels say would happen to the state after revolution?

it would “wither away” as there would be no need for it as an agent of false conciousness

what did marx say about how society should provide for each other? (link to collectivism)

“from each according to ability to each according to need”

what did luxemborg say that the devlopment of socialist society should look like? (link to workers control)

“the whole mass of people must take part of it”

what type of economy did giddens argue for?

“ a new mixed economy”

what type of welfare state did blair describe?

“ a genuinely providing people with a hand up not a hand out”

what type of equality did welfare describe?

“equality as inclusion”→ providing citizens positive freedom to improve themselves via education, not welfare

what did marx say about human nature under capitalism?

“it is not the conciousness of men determines that existence but their social existence which determines their consciousness”

what did webb say in terms of expanding the state to expand socialism?

in order to “secure a national minimum of civilised life” we need “suffcient nourishment and training”