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Revolutionary Socialists
Marx + Engels
Rosa Luxemburg
Social Democrats
Anthony Crosland
Beatrice Webb
Third Way Socialism
Anthony Giddens
Marx + Engels Key Beliefs
historical materialism
dialectical change
class consciousness
M+E Key Quote
“the proletariat has nothing to lose but their chains”
M+E Works
Das Kapital, The Communist Manifesto
M+E Application to Principles
workers’ control
social class
common humanity
Rosa Luxemburg Key Beliefs
revolution + overthrow of capitalism
class consciousness + proletariat
capitalism unsustainable
mass strikes + workers’ control (no vanguard party)
RL Key Quote
“the mass strike is the first, natural impulsive form of every great revolutionary struggle”
RL Key Work
Accumulation of Capital 1913
RL Principles
social class
workers’ control
equality
Beatrice Webb Ideas
inevitability of gradualness
elitist socialism (top down)
reforming capitalism
centralised state managed socialism guiding the masses (Stalin’s Russia)
Beatrice Web Key Quotes
‘Nature still obstinately refuses to co-operate by making the rich people innately superior to the poor people’
BW Works
Soviet Communism: A New Civilisation?
1935
BW application to themes
state
human nature
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
Crosland Works
1956
The Future of Socialism
Crosland Quotes
‘Marx has little or nothing to offer the modern socialist’
‘I’m going to destroy every grammar school in England and Wales’
Crosland Application to Themes
state
economy
society
Crosland Application to Principles
equality
common humanity
social class
Giddens Key Beliefs
mixed economy
minimal state intervention
social investment state
modernised with globalisation, knowledge econ + individual aspirations
importance of community
Giddens Key Quotes
the left should ‘get comfortable with the markets’
‘the new mixed economy looks… for a synergy between public and private sectors’
Giddens Key Works
The Third Way: The Renewal of Social Democracy
1998
Giddens Application to Principles
common humanity
equality
workers’ control? (anti)
Giddens Application to Themes
Economy
State
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