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Socialism Revision Flashcards
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- 1'Plastic' NatureHumans are social creatures shaped by the experiences and circumstances of social life.
- 2Class ConsciousnessThe idea that the working class will be the people to lead the revolution against the capitalist system.
- 3BourgeoisieThe social class of people who own the means of production.
- 4ProletariatThe workers of the means of production.
- 5Historical MaterialismHegel's materialist conception of history.
- 6DialecticThis involves discourse between two or more people holding different viewpoints about certain subjects, they wish to establish the truth of the subject matter through reasoned argument.
- 7'The Communist Manifesto’ (1848)“The history of all hitherto societies is the history of class conflict”
- 8Clause 4Labour Party's constitution written by Beatrice Webb and Sidney Webb.
- 9TechnocraticThe governing or control of society or industry by an elite of technical experts.
- 10“The Inevitability of Gradualness”The idea of the Fabian society that through gradual change socialism would establish itself as the main political ideology in Britain, rather than using revolution to bring this about.
- 11Cooperative FederalismThis ideology advocates for consumer cooperative societies - enterprises are owned by consumers and managed democratically to fulfil the needs of their members.
- 12Cooperative IndividualismCooperative individualism ultimately promotes the ownership and control of the workplace by the workers. Thus, cooperative individualists maintain company profits should be paid in dividends to workers.
- 13RevisionistThe theory or practice of revising one's attitude to a previously accepted situation or point of view. e.g. Crosland on Marxism
- 14The Third WayA political and theoretical perspective that sought to alter left-wing ideas of the economic and political realities of globalisation.
- 15Active WelfareEnsure those who claimed welfare benefits attempted to escape the poverty trap.
- 16Progressive TaxationA taxing mechanism in which the taxing authority charges more taxes as the income of the taxpayer increases.
- 17Welfare StateA system where the state protects the health and well-being of its citizens, especially those in financial or social need, by means of grants, pensions, and other benefits.
- 18CommunitarianismThe interests of the community and society are more important that the individual.
- 19Keynesian EconomicsAn economic theory relating to total spending in the economy and the effects on output and inflation. Keynes advocated increased government expenditure and lower taxes during the Great Depression to revive the economy.
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