BEATRICE WEBB Flashcards
How many socialist principles did Webb have?
4
What was Webb’s first principle?
Capitalism was the principle causes of ‘crippling poverty and demeaning inequality’ and a ‘corrupting force’, fostering ‘unnatural’ levels of avarice and selfishness
What was Webb’s second principle?
Neither paternalism nor philanthropist was a sustainable solution to poverty and inequality
What was Webb’s third principle?
Poverty and inequality were most likely elevated through trade unionism and state intervention
What was Webb’s fourth principle?
Effective reform tends to be gradual rather than revolutionary
What organisation, that was committed to evolutionary socialism, was Webb part of?
Fabian Society
What party did Webb and the organisation that she was involved in part of?
Labour Party
What clause in 1918 did Webb and the organisation she joined helped draft?
Clause IV of Labours Constitution (commit Labour to ‘common ownership’ but pursuing by the existing political system)
Between 1905 and 1909 what did the Royal Commission Webb served on examine?
The state’s approach to poverty
What is Webb’s celebrated work?
Her Minority Report
What did Webbs highlighted work say the State should guarantee?
‘A sufficient nourishment and training when young, a living wage when able-bodied, treatment when sick and modest but secure livelihood when disabled or aged’
Which report in 1942 said a lot of the same stuff as Webb had highlighted?
Beveridge Report
What type of socialist was Webb called?
Democratic Socialist
Webb’s view of human nature
The damage inflicted by capitalism upon the human psyche will be compounded only by violent revolution. Humanity needs to be guided to its original cooperative condition
Webb’s view of the state
If harnessed to universal suffrage, the existing state could be used to effect a gradual transition to socialism
