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level: Socialism

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level questions: Socialism

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What is socialism?Socialism emerged as an attempt to find an alternative to capitalism, seeking to find a more humane economic system.
What is Marxism?A form of revolutionary socialism involving the belief in the inevitability of a mass uprising of the proletariat, leading to revolution.
What is fraternity?the brotherhood/sisterhood of all. Socialists believe in community, seeing the bonds between people as stronger than the divisions
What is evolutionary socialism?this involves the rejection of revolutionary politics, and a belief that socialism can be achieved peacefully and gradually through the existing constitutional system
What is Keynesian Economics?Keynesian economics includes the state manages market forces to ensure steady growth and employment, Social democrats believe this would finance increased public spending thus greater equality.
What is Social Justice?A type of justice that goes past legal and formal justice. It includes healthcare and education being accessible to all and a minimum wage for workers
What is class consciousness?A by-product of capitalism that would be especially pronounced amongst the downtrodden working class or proletariat. It would eventually be the engine for revolution and capitalism's destruction
What is capitalism?The system of property ownership developed after feudalism. It consists of private ownership of the systems of production and redistribution. Its tendency to produce unequal outcomes is a concern for many socialists.
What is dialectic?Refers to the clash of ideas and perceptions that will inevitably take place within each stage of history and will eventually lead to the disappearance of the existing society
What is historical materialism?The idea that the causes of change in society is the conflict between classes, be it a feudal lord and peasant or a bourgeois factory owner proletariat
What is communism?an economic system in which the means of production are owned in the common rather than by individuals and where social class and inequality are abolished
What is cooperation?The idea that humans are malleable and moulded by circumstances but tend to lean towards altruism. We are social beings and naturally work with others.
What is revionism?the belief that socialism can be achieved without the destruction of capitalism and private properties, and without the upheaval of a revolution. A form of evolutionary socialism. Associated with Edward Bernstein
What is common ownership?a method of ownership that ensures that the needs of the many override those of the few. it is synonyms with state ownership and public ownership