Socialism and Communism

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Socialism and Communism

• Seeking Utopia

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Socialism defined

• The basic needs of the entire society rather
  than the basic needs of the individual.

Socialisms emergence
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Socialisms emergence

• Industrialized Europe failed to take care of
  poverty and working conditions of labor
• Capitalism poverty/rich or success/fail to
  individual choice.
• Socialism individual responsibility
  government helping.

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Key terms of Socialism

• Egalitarianism - wealth is used for the common
  good.
• Moralism. peace, social justice and true liberty
  for all. 

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Social democracy

• Democratic governments promote economic - as well
  as political - freedom equality. (tax and
  regulate Capitalism Game )

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Karl Marx

• Studied British economic records for 20 years to
  develop theory that everything is based on the
  economic system politics,
• law, social structures,
• family relations,
• even religious belief.

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Define

• Bourgeois

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Define

• Bourgeois modern capitalists who own the means
  of production (factories) and therefore get to
  keep all the profits.
• Today, this would include...

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Define

• Proletarians

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Define

• Proletarians modern wage laborers who sell their
  labor to live and dont get any of the profits
  that they help to create.
• This includes everyone who is not a stockholder
  or owner of capital, even professionals who work
  for a salary.

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From Communist Manifesto

• The bourgeoisie has created enormous cities,
  has greatly increased the urban population as
  compared with the rural, and has thus rescued a
  considerable part of the population from the
  idiocy of rural life. The bourgeoisie, during
  its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created
  more massive and more colossal productive forces
  than have all preceding generations together
  railways, electric telegraphs, clearing of whole
  continents for cultivation, canalization of
  rivers.

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Communist Revolution

• Revolution will eliminate private property. No
  longer will man have the means of exploiting
  another man.
• Bourgeoisie will fight, so revolution will be
  violent.
• A dictatorship of the proletariat will follow to
  weed out remaining capitalist elements.

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Ok, what about this Utopia?

• In the end, a classless society with no more
  oppression or internal contradictions.
• People will be free to choose how they work, and
  can be creatively productive. They will be able
  to live to their fullest potential

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Summarize

• In no less than 5 sentences, summarize todays
  notes 1)