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Socialism is an ideology used to represent the broad range of ideologies that fall under the umbrella term of "Socialism". In the classical sense, socialism describes worker-owned means of production, heavily supporting worker coups, democratic self-management, and workplace democracy. But much of the conservative western world says that socialism is an authoritarian leftist ideology, in which a bureaucratic state controls the means of production, in a bureaucratic way. But the modern definition of the word socialism, popularised by European Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Social Democrats, and the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Democratic Socialists of America, is "any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods." Socialism in the modern age advocates workers' democratic self-management, high taxation on the wealthy, nationalisation over key parts of industry, and preventing climate change. Socialism is always economically left, and culturally neutral however has found itself becoming synonymous with progressivism mostly in the west at the most recent times. But you do get ideologies like Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Conservative Socialism and more extreme ones like Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Strasserism and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination National Bolshevism, that combine Socialist economics, with conservative cultural preservation, due to their shared Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Populist standpoint.

History (WIP)

Socialism as a political movement is rooted in the French Revolution and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Jacobinism, although notable proto-socialist figures and movements existed before this. The first socialist thinkers were social critics and philosophers of the 19th century from Western Europe. These socialist thinkers followed what would later be dubbed, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Utopian Socialism, due to their lack of materialist analysis and bourgeois nature. Among these thinkers were Charles Fourier, Henri de Saint-Simon, and Robert Owen. Despite all these thinkers being considered Utopian Socialists, their philosophies differed greatly in many ways, with Owen's ideology resembling Socialism in the modern sense more so than the other two.

Robert Owen would go on to develop several socialist communes and villages, being the first to attempt to actualize a socialist society, though these projects were often on a small scale and subject to much criticism.

In France, during the first half of the 19th century, socialist philosophers and politicians continued to popularize socialism. It is in France during this time that many socialists started to reject the gradualism and utilization of utopian communes of the older Utopian Socialists. The term "socialism" was first used in a French Utopian Socialist newspaper. There also emerged a Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Christian Socialist movement in France led by Philippe Buchez. Moreover, during this time, French socialist literature, which would prove to be highly consequential, was being published, most notably What Is Property? by Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Pierre-Joseph Proudhon.

In the 19th century, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Anarchism as a movement arose, and was incorporated into the socialist movement. This is seen with thinkers such as the aforementioned Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, whose socialistic anarchism was market-oriented, as well as with more communistic anarchists, like the Russian Mikhail Bakunin, who sought a Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination collectivist anarchist society which would utilize labor vouchers, as well as the prominent Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination anarchist communist Peter Kropotkin, who sought a completely communistic society, devoid of any form of currency whatsoever. Anarchism when combined with socialist principles would later come to be known as Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Social Anarchism.

Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Marxism, which arose from Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, became the most influential socialist philosophy in history. Marx and Engels ideas on philosophy, political economy, sociology and history were influenced primarily by Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination classical economists such as Adam Smith and David Ricardo, the earlier utopian socialists, and socialist ideals which arose in revolutionary France. Marx and Engels devised a materialist philosophy of history known as historical materialism, and called their form of socialism "scientific socialism" in contrast with utopian socialism. Marxism differed from Utopian Socialism in that it viewed history as a series of class struggles, and saw moving towards socialism within capitalism as futile, instead advocating for revolution.

Personality

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An artwork portraying a revolutionary holding a rifle with a red flag on it.

Soc is usually portrayed as a stereotypical industrial-era unionized worker who really loves striking against Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination his boss and usually will follow the personality traits of the various types of socialism portrayed.

How to Draw

Socialism's design is a unicolor of red, associated with Socialism, and a white hammer in the middle symbolizing labor. This is essentially a distinctive form of "The Red Flag".

Flag of Socialism
  1. Draw a ball
  2. Color the ball red
  3. Add a white hammer in the center
  4. Draw eyes on the ball

And you're done!

Color Name HEX RGB
Red #FF0000 255, 0, 0
White #FFFFFF 255, 255, 255


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