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“Only in a socialist system are the interests of the individual, the state and the collective at one.”


Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination 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 combined with Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination egalitarianism, heavily supporting Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination worker co-ops, self-management, economic planning, and/or Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination workplace democracy depending on the variant. The modern definition of the word socialism, popularized 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' self-management, high taxation on the wealthy and/or nationalization over key parts of industry. 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 Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination 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 Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Adam Smith and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination 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 Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination 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.

Variants

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Progressive Conservative Socialism is the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination progressive conservative version of Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination socialism. It is culturally moderate and supports the idea that both Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination progressivism and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination conservatism and elements in them that are needed for society to prosper. This cultural model can be seen with Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination 21st Century Socialism.

Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Progressive Socialism

Progressive Socialism is a variant of socialism that wants progressive reforms to establish worker ownership over the means of production in some form. This can be seen in ideologies such as Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination democratic socialism or Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination liberal socialism.

Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Revolutionary Socialism

Revolutionary Socialism is a political philosophy, doctrine, and tradition within socialism that stresses the idea that a social revolution is necessary to bring about structural changes in society. More specifically, it is the view that revolution is a necessary precondition for transitioning from a capitalist to a socialist mode of production. Revolution is not necessarily defined as a violent insurrection; it is defined as a seizure of political power by mass movements of the working class so that the state is directly controlled or abolished by the working class as opposed to the capitalist class and its interests. It encompasses many movements, such as movements based on Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination orthodox Marxist theory such as Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination De Leonism, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination impossibilism and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Spartacism, as well as movements based on Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Leninism and the theory of Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination vanguardist-led revolution such as Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Maoism, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Marxism–Leninism and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Trotskyism. Revolutionary socialism also includes other Marxist, Marxist-inspired and non-Marxist movements such as those found in Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination democratic socialism, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination revolutionary syndicalism, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination anarchism and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination social democracy.

Revolutionary socialism is contrasted with reformist socialism, especially the reformist wing of Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination social democracy and other evolutionary approaches to socialism and is opposed to social movements that seek to gradually ameliorate capitalism's economic and social problems through Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination political reform.

Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Lassalleism

State

In contrast with Marx and his adherents, Lassalle rejected the idea that the state was a class-based power structure with the function of preserving existing class relations and destined to wither away in a future classless society. Instead, Lassalle considered the state as an independent entity, an instrument of justice essential for the achievement of the socialist program.[41]

Iron law of wages

Lassalle accepted the idea first posited by the classical economist David Ricardo that wage rates in the long term tended towards the minimum level necessary to sustain the life of the worker and to provide for his reproduction. In accord with the law of rent, Lassalle coined his own iron law of wages. Lassalle argued that individual measures of self-help by wage workers were destined to failure and that only producers' cooperatives established with the financial aid of the state would make economic improvement of the workers' lives possible.[42] From this, it followed that the political action of the workers to capture the power of the state was paramount and the organization of trade unions to struggle for ephemeral wage improvements is more or less a diversion from the primary struggle.

Philosophy

Lassalle considered Johann Gottlieb Fichte as "one of the mightiest thinkers of all peoples and ages", praising Fichte's Addresses to the German Nation in a May 1862 speech as "one of the mightiest monuments of fame which our people possesses, and which, in depth and power, far surpass everything of this sort which has been handed down to us from the literature of all time and peoples".[43]

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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