State

Cards (7)

  • Marx:
    • Strong socialist state that intervenes in the economy to address social inequalities
    • Revolution and the forceful removal of the traditional state
    • Proletariat must rise up and destroy the bourgeoisie in a class struggle
    • State with complete control of all resources
  • Marx:
    • Class consciousness: the working class would suddenly gain class consciousness and realise they were being exploited and revolt would happen all at once
    • Revolution as the true democratic movement of direct power- the only way to remove the ruling class that the state was designed to protect
    • Transitional phase ‘the dictatorship of the proletariat’ will occur following state removal
  • Luxemburg:
    • Strong socialist state that intervenes in the economy to address social inequalities
    • Revolution and the forceful removal of the traditional state
    • Proletariat must rise up and destroy the bourgeoisie in a class struggle
    • State with complete control of all resources
  • Luxemburg:
    • Revolution would not be spontaneous as the state’s control of the proletariat was so extensive that they’d never realise they were being exploited- need for education by an elite revolutionary group, which would stimulate widespread revolution
    • Rejected ‘dictatorship of the proletariat’ – post-revolution there should be free elections and a democracy built on common ownership
  • Webb:
    • Strong socialist state that intervenes in the economy to address social inequalities
    • State with complete control of all resources
    • Democratic socialism: revolutions were chaotic and inefficient and that it could be resolved by rational discourse and educated civil-minded officials
    • Universal suffrage would lead to political equality as democracy would work in the interests of the working-class majority
    • Gradual transition to socialist state through democracy- ‘inevitability of gradualism’
  • Crosland:
    • Capitalist market combined with socialist government could be used to improve the life of the workers
    • State run economies hugely inefficient
  • Giddens:
    • Capitalist market combined with socialist government could be used to improve the life of the workers
    • State run economies hugely inefficient
    • Rejected ‘top-down’ state intervention and state-managed social democracy