Key Thinkers (summary)

Cards (6)

  • Karl Marx
    Key Ideas: the centrality of social class
    Books: The Communist Manifesto (1848), Das Kapital
  • Rosa Luxembourg

    Key Ideas: Evolutionary socialism and revisionism not possible, struggle by proletariat
  • Beatrice Webb
    Key Ideas: 'Inevitability of gradualness', expansion of state
    Books: Clause 4 (1917)
  • Anthony Crosland

    Key Ideas: Inherent contradictions in capitalism, state managed capitalism
    Books: The Future of Socialism (1956)
  • Anthony Giddens

    Key Ideas: rejection of state intervention, role of state
    Quotes: "A hand up not a handout"
  • Tony Blair

    "Tough on Crime, tough on causes of crime"