Socialism key thinkers

Question 1

Karl Marx background

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• Born in Treir Germay
• Studied law and philosphy
• Married Jenny von and became stateless due to his political publications and lived in exile with his wife and children in london before he continued to develop his though with frejrick engels
  Published his writings researching in the reading room of the British Museum

Question 2

Karl Marx Key works

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Fredrich Engles background

Question 4

Marx view of capitalism

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Impact of capitalism on human nature

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Impact of classess society on human nature

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Marx Key ideas

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Social class is central to socialims
Human nature is socially determined and can only be expressed undr communism

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Marx Historical Materliams

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Marx Dialetic

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Marx Class consciousness

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Marx view of revolution

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Marx Key quotes

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Beatrice Webb background

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Beatrice Webb key ideas

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The inevitability of gradualness establising socialism peacefully by passing democratic reforms through existing parliamentary instituions
The expansion of the state will deliver socialism

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Beatrice Webb key works

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Beatrice Webb view of marxism

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Beatrice Webb “the inevitability of gradualism”

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Beatrice Webbs view of capitalism

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Beatrice Webb fabian society

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BW view on human nature + working classes

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BW Role of the state

Question 22

BW KEY QUOTE - ,“to secure a national minimum of civilised life … open to all alike, of both sexes and all classes, by which we meant sufficient nourishment and training when young, a living wage when able-bodied, treatment when sick, and modest but secure livelihood when disabled or aged”. What did she mean by this?

Question 23

BW KEY QUOTE - “Nature still obstinately refuses to co-operate by making the rich people innately superior to the poor people”

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BW KEY QUOTE - “The inevitability of gradualism”

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Rosa Luxemburg Background

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Rosa Luxemburg Key ideas

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Evolutionary socialism is not possible as capitalism is based on economic exploitation Struggle by the proletariat crates the class consciousness needed to overthrow the capitalist state

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RL view of capitalism

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RL view on social democracy

Question 29

How did she disagree with marx and engels about how a revolution could happen

Question 34

RL KEY QUOTE “freedom is how free your opponent is”

Question 35

RL KEY QUOTE- “There is no socialism without democracy and no democracy without socialism” What did she mean by this?

Question 36

RL key quote “Without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, without the free battle of opinions, life in every public institution withers away, becomes a caricature of itself, and bureaucracy rises as the only deciding factor”. What did she mean by this?

Question 37

RL KEY QUOTE - “All war is male” What did she mean by this?

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Anthony Crossland background

Question 39

Anthony Crossland Key ideas

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The inherent contraditictions in capitalism State managed capitalism

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AC Key Works

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Anthony Giddens background

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Anthony Giddens Key ideas

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Anthony Giddens Key works

Question 48

Anthony giddens

Question 49

Karl Marx view on Human nature (summary)

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* Humans are naturally altruistics However capitalism instils them with false consciousness of bourgeois values

Question 50

Karl Marx view on the state

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Capitalism must be destroyed by revolution The state will temporarily replaced by the dictatorship of the proletariat and will wither away when communism is established

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Karl Marx view on the state

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Karl Marx view on economy

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Rosa Luxemburg human nature

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Rosa Luxemburg State

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Rosa Luxemburg society

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Rosa Luxemburg society

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Rose Luxemburg economy

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BW Human nature

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BW the state

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BW society

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Society under socialist state management will produce equality of outcome

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BW economy

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The free market economy would be gradually nationalised as the workers obtain common ownership of the means of production

Question 62

AC STATE

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The state should ne managed by metocratic managers and classless technocrats

Question 63

AC HUMAN NATURE

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Human nature is innately fair, inequalities of outcome and opportunity hinder collective human progress

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AC SOCIETY

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State management will affect societal change and create

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AC ECONOMY

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Rejected webbs gradualism and argued for a mixed economy and keynesian capitalism and largely been reformed of its exploitative tendencies

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AG HUMAN NATURE

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Human nature is shaped by socioeconomic conditions more focus on humans as borh individual and collective creatures

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AG THE STATE

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The state should invest in social investment and infrastructure and refrain from economic and social engineering

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AG SOCIETY

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Society will embrace Equality of oppotunity and communal responsibility instead of class conflict

Question 69

AG ECONOMY

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A neo liberal economy with a free market is more effcient than all socialist economic models and the tax revenues they generate can finance greater equality of opportunity