Wednesday, November 13, 2013





  • Democratic Socialism 
1.     DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM advocates Socialism as an economic principle (the means of production should be in the hands of ordinary working people), and democracy as a governing principle (political power should be in the hands of the people democratically through a co-operative commonwealth or republic). 
2.     It attempts to bring about Socialism through peaceful democratic means as opposed to violent insurrection, and represents the reformist tradition of Socialism.
3.     It is similar, but not necessarily identical (although the two terms are sometimes used interchangeably), to Social Democracy. This refers to an ideology that is more centrist and supports a broadly Capitalist system, with some social reforms (such as the welfare state), intended to make it more equitable and humane
4.     Democratic Socialism, by contrast, implies an ideology that is more left-wing and supportive of a fully socialist system, established either by gradually reforming. 
5.     Capitalism from within, or by some form of revolutionary transformation.

  • Revolutionary Socialism 
1.     REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALISM advocates the need for fundamental social  change through revolution or insurrection(rather than gradual refom) as a strategy to achieve a socialist society. 
2.      The Third International, which was founded following the Russian Revolution of 1917, defined itself in terms of Revolutionary Socialism but also became widely identified with Communism
3.     Trotskyism is the theory of Revolutionary Socialism as advocated by Leon Trotsky (1879 - 1940), declaring the need for an international proletarian revolution (rather than Stalin's "socialism in one country") and unwavering support for a true dictatorship of the proletariat based on democratic principles. 
4.     Luxemburgism is another Revolutionary Socialist tradition, based on the writings of Rosa Luxemburg (1970 - 1919). It is similar to Trotskyism in its opposition to the Totalitarianism of Stalin, while simultaneously avoiding the reformist politics of modern Social Democracy.

  • Utopian Socialism 
1.     UTOPIAN SOCIALISM is a term used to define the first currents ofmodern socialist thought in the first quarter of the 19th Century. 
2.     In general, it was used by later socialist thinkers to describe early socialist, or quasi-socialist, intellectuals who created hypothetical visions of perfect egalitarian and communalist societies without actually concerning themselves with the manner in which these societies could be created or sustained. 
3.     They rejected all political (and especially all revolutionary) action, and wished to attain their ends by peaceful means and small experiments, which more practical socialists like Karl Marx saw as necessarily doomed to failure
4.     But the early theoretical work of people like Robert Owen (1771-1858), Charles Fourier (1772-1837) and Étienne Cabet (1788–1856) gave much of the impetus to later socialist movements.

  • Libertarian Socialism 

1.     LIBERTARIAN SOCIALISM aims to create a society without political, economic or social hierarchies, in which every person would have free, equal access to tools of information and production. 
2.     This would be achieved through the abolition of authoritarian institutions and private property, so that direct control of the means of production and resources will be gained by the working class and society as a whole. 
3.     Most Libertarian Socialists advocate abolishing the state altogether, in much the same way as Utopian Socialists and many varieties of Anarchism (including Social Anarchism, Anarcho-Communism, Anarcho-Collectivism and Anarcho-Syndicalism).

  • Market Socialism 
1.     MARKET SOCIALISM is a term used to define an economic system in which there is a market economy directed and guided by socialist planners, and where prices would be set through trial and error (making adjustments as shortages and surpluses occur) rather than relying on a free price mechanism. 
2.     By contrast, a Socialist Market Economy, such as that practiced in the People's Republic of China, in one where major industries are owned by state entities, but compete with each other within a pricing system set by the market and the state does not routinely intervene in the setting of prices.

  • Eco-Socialism (or Green Socialism or Socialist Ecology
1.     ECO-SOCIALISM is an ideology merging aspects of Marxism, Socialism,Green politicsecology and the anti-globalization movement
2.     They advocate the non-violent dismantling of Capitalism and the State, focusing on collective ownership of the means of production, in order to mitigate the social exclusion, poverty and environmental degradation brought about (as they see it) by the capitalist system,globalization and imperialism.

  • Christian Socialism 
1.     CHRISTIAN SOCIALISM generally refers to those on the Christian left whose politics are both Christian and socialist, and who see these two things as being interconnected
2.     Christian socialists draw parallels between what some have characterized as the egalitarian and anti-establishment message of Jesus, and the messages of modern Socialism.





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