Socialism

Question 1

Marx Quotes

Answer 1

The history of all hitherto society is the history of class conflict.
The bourgeoisie produces its own grave diggers
Owing to the extensive use of machinery and to division of labour, the work of the proletarians has lost all individual character, and consequently all charm for the workman.
The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workers of the world, unite!

The man who has made the greatest number of people happy is happiest.
The dictatorship of the proletariat- a transitionary state before a stateless communist society.

From each according to their ability, to each according to their needs.

Question 2

Engels

Answer 2

Where freedom exists, there will be no state

Question 3

Luxemburg

Answer 3

There is no democracy without socialism, no socialism without democracy.
This dictatorship must be the work of the class and not of a little leading minority in the name of the class.
Poweris to be won for the proletariat in every domain, at all costs.

Question 4

Webb

Answer 4

The inevitability of gradualness-

Competition leads to the deterioration of industries.
A technocratic elite should impregnate all the existing forces of society.
Original Clause IV- Labour would “secure for the workers by hands or by brains the full fruits of their industry”
Wrote Soviet Communism, highlighting admiration for Soviet state socialism.

Question 5

Crosland

Answer 5

Managerialism

In Britain, equality of opportunity and social mobility […] are not enough.

The most characteristic features of capitalism have disappeared.

Question 6

Giddens

Answer 6

The left has to get comfortable with the markets.

The cybernetic model is dead.

All welfare states create problems of dependency

Post Fordist economies are liberating for the individual, but cause alienation from the community.