Socialism

Question 1

Marx and Engels- class, historical dialect, need for a revolution

Answer 1

“The history of society is the history of class struggles”

Question 2

Marx and Engels- opposition to capitalism, workers control of the means of production

Answer 2

“The proletarian can free himself only by abolishing private property”

Question 3

Marx and Engels- utopian society, result of collectivism and workers control, equality

Answer 3

“From each according to his ability to each according to his need”

Question 4

Rosa Luxemburg- importance of strikes, support for revolution, rejection of Lenin’s revolutionary elite

Answer 4

“The mass strike is the first natural impulsive form of every great revolutionary struggle of the proletariat“

Question 5

Beatrice Webb- democratic shift to socialism negating need for a revolution

Answer 5

“Inevitability of gradualness“

Question 6

Anthony Crosland (ev) - less emphasis on class, rejection of the revolution due to less binary proletariat

Answer 6

“The ordinary worker lives at what even two decades ago would’ve been considered in Britain a middle class standard of life“

Question 7

Marx and Engels- theory of false consciousness, social class, inherent ills of capitalism

Answer 7

“Proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains“