Thinkers

• Revolutionary thinkers

  1. karl Marx
  2. Rosa Luxemburg
• Marx and Engels

  • state will whither away
  • Capitalism only benefits small majority
  • proletariat must become ‘class for itself’
  • humans are social
• Rosa Luxemburg

  • Opposed Evolutionaries
  • Economic revolution
  • proletariat discontent leads to strikes and revolution
  • “the masses are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built ”
• Evolutionary socialists

  • Beatrice Webb
  • Anthony Crosland
• Beatrice Webb:

  • ‘Inevitability of gradualness’ - the belief that democracy would deliver socialist society.
  • overthrow capitalism via ballot box
  • expansion of State - ‘police power to housekeeping’
• Anthony Crosland:

  • Didn’t think capitalism hindered social change
  • STATE - more social equalit, distribution of rewards, remove class barriers
  • ECONOMY - more money on public services, mixed economy, equality of outcome, Keynesian economics
  • Preserve the affluent and help those at the bottom
• Third way socialists

  • Anthony Giddens
• Anthony Giddens:

  • rejects state intervention
  • capitalism enriches society and is efficient - utilise it’s benefits and neutralise bad effects on society
  • community and responsibility
  • PRIORITISE INFRASTRUCTURE