6.3+Socialism

 
 * Basic Definition: Control of the economy and distribution of goods by the government
 * Revolution of 1905
 * Socialist parties were developing but because of repression in Russia  they turned into revolutions
 * Communist Manifesto:
 * Written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
 * Marx and Engles believed the workers would over through their bourgeoisie lords and eventually a classless society would form.
 * 5 stages to reach a classless society of communism:
 * 1 - Primitive
 * 2 – Feudal
 * 3 – Capitalism
 * 4 – Socialism
 * 5 – Communism
 * Revolutionary Socialism
 * Created by Georges Sorel – French Political theorist
 * Have to destroy capitalisms to have socialism


 * Evolutionary Socialism:
 * Also called Revisionism
 * Eduard Bernstien – well known evolutionary socialist
 * Wrote a book: __Evolutionary Social__
 * Thought change could come form within the system; workers needed to organize and farm large political parties. The workers just needed to gain equal rights and then could do anything.
 * German Socialism
 * Germany had the most Socialist parties
 * German Social Democratic Party (SPD)
 * Wilhelm Liebknecht and August Bebel led the SPD and ran for positions in the German Parialment to gain power for the SPD.
 * SPD hoped to improve the condition of the working class.
 * 1912- SPD became the largest single party in Germany