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Socialism

Fabian Rod

What is it?

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Definition

Socialism

Socialism is a social, economic and political system where an entire society owns and operates all forms of business.

Controls

The means of production

Owns

Means of production

capitalist class

Proletariat

  • land
  • labor
  • capital
  • entrepreneurship

bourgeoisie

Proletariat

workers or working-class people

Workers own nothing but their ability to sell their labor for a wage.

Distribution

State

Control

To distribute the end result proportionally

Social welfare

Social welfare

To satisfy everyone basic needs

Housing

Healthcare

Education

What did it want?

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#1

create a level plane field

Remove social class distinction based on ownership

#2

United States

Finland

Access to free education

Expensive

  • better opportunities
  • material disadvantage

Class inequality

#3

Same opportunity to succeed or fail

regardless of their financial status

Idealistic

only if we remove social classes

True societal equality

Utopia

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Expectation

Utopian Socialism

Ideologues wanted to transform the exploitation conditions that appeared within the industrialization that were considered unfair.

impossible to reach

Thinking

Utopian socialists

"human beings do not seek confrontation or fighting"

natural condition of kindness

Same opportunities for everybody

Goal

How?

  • Abolition private property
  • Control the means of production
  • Social equality
  • Greater control by the State

Marxism

Who developed this movement?

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Marxism, a body of doctrine developed by Karl Marx and, to a lesser extent, by Friedrich Engels in the mid-19th century.

Scientific socialism

What is it?

a method for understanding and predicting social, economic and material phenomena.

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How?

by examining their historical trends through the use of the scientific method.

What for?

To obtain probable outcomes and probable future developments

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Class conflict?

Marxist theory states that in industrial societies

Bourgeoisie

Proletariat

The communist manifesto

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  • A political document
  • Published 1848
  • Marx, and Engels
  • The founding manuscript of Marxism

Points of view

Means of production

Basic ideas

Proletariat is the dynamic factor of society and history.

It feels the contradictions of society and it drives change

Human history - class conflict

Industrial society (bourgeoisie and proletariat)

Did you know?

Capitalist society

workers

sell their working skills

Capital Gain

Value of workforce is regulated by the law of supply and demand

next

There is always an extra profit.

Although the company owner must pay some productions costs.

Capital Gain

What are some costs of production?

  • Labor
  • Materials
  • Land

Owner of the means of production

Capital gain

They will try to make it greater by reducing salaries.

Marxism

disappear

Capital Gain

Benefits should be given to the workers directly.

2 forms

The State should give it indirectly in form of services.

Capitalist sectors

Capital is given more prestige than workers

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