4.3 Socialism Key Thinkers

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Revolutionary Socialists
Marx + Engels

Rosa Luxemburg
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Social Democrats
Anthony Crosland

Beatrice Webb
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Third Way Socialism
Anthony Giddens
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Marx + Engels Key Beliefs
historical materialism

dialectical change

class consciousness
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M+E Key Quote
“the proletariat has nothing to lose but their chains”
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M+E Works
Das Kapital, The Communist Manifesto
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M+E Application to Principles
workers’ control

social class

common humanity
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Rosa Luxemburg Key Beliefs
revolution + overthrow of capitalism

class consciousness + proletariat

capitalism unsustainable

mass strikes + workers’ control (no vanguard party)
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RL Key Quote
“the mass strike is the first, natural impulsive form of every great revolutionary struggle”
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RL Key Work
Accumulation of Capital 1913
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RL Principles
social class

workers’ control

equality
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Beatrice Webb Ideas
inevitability of gradualness

elitist socialism (top down)

reforming capitalism

centralised state managed socialism guiding the masses (Stalin’s Russia)
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Beatrice Web Key Quotes
‘Nature still obstinately refuses to co-operate by making the rich people innately superior to the poor people’
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BW Works
Soviet Communism: A New Civilisation?

1935
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BW application to __themes__
state

human nature
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Anthony Crosland Beliefs
capitalism has reformed beyond Marxist understanding

role of the state to manage capitalism

democratic equality + communitarian society

mixed economy + welfare state

expansion of education
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Crosland Works
1956

The Future of Socialism
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Crosland Quotes
‘Marx has little or nothing to offer the modern socialist’

‘I’m going to destroy every grammar school in England and Wales’
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Crosland Application to Themes
state

economy

society
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Crosland Application to Principles
equality

common humanity

social class
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Giddens Key Beliefs
mixed economy

minimal state intervention

social investment state

modernised with globalisation, knowledge econ + individual aspirations

importance of community
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Giddens Key Quotes
the left should ‘get comfortable with the markets’

‘the new mixed economy looks… for a synergy between public and private sectors’
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Giddens Key Works
The Third Way: The Renewal of Social Democracy

1998
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Giddens Application to Principles
common humanity

equality

workers’ control? (anti)
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Giddens Application to Themes
Economy

State