Socialism

Socialism is an ideology ball used to represent the broad range of ideologies that fall under the umbrella of "Socialism". In the classical sense, socialism describes worker-owned means of production, heavily supporting worker coops, 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 social democrats, and the 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. But you do get ideologies like Conservative Socialism, Paternalistic Conservatism, and more extreme ones like Strasserism and National Bolshevism, that combine Socialist economics, with conservative cultural preservation, due to their shared populist standpoint.

Soc was born in the very late 18th century to Jacobinism did the whole French Revolution fiasco. Later in his childhood he Bonapartism kinda kicked him out of France and was left to spread around Europe and the World.

In the post-French revolution stage of his life, Soc found himself fathering a set of children with the most influential ones being Social Democracy (a.k.a. the centrist of the group), Marxism (who is considered the "true" successor of Soc and who himself fathered Marxism-Leninism) and Utopian Socialism (being something of a leader for the Left-wing balls who don't like Marxism).

Personality

Soc is usually portrayed as a stereotypical industrial-era unionized worker who really loves striking against his boss and usually will follow the personality traits of the various types of socialism portrayed.

How to Draw

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

Socialism is a unicolour ball of Red, a colour associated with Socialism for a pretty long time. Especially in the form of "The Red Flag".

Draw a ball.
Draw two eyes on the ball.
Fill the ball red.
(Optional) Add a white hammer to differentiate it from the Authleft quadrant ball

And you're done.

Relationships

Friends

Marxism - Congratulations on your child taking over a solid chunk of the world, although I'm kinda skeptical on this "Dictatorship of the Proletariat" thing.
Anarcho-Syndicalism/ Syndicalism - Taught you how to strike good.
Classical Liberalism - I remember our good 'ol rivalries, good times.
Anarchism - Wow, I see you had a lot of kids..

Frenemies

Social Democracy - Wait, why are you trying to reform capitalism?
Globalismball - I don't like the unregulated international trade thing, but I like when you help the third world and I also like Socialist Internationalism (Mostly).

Enemies

Capitalism - GIVE ME A GODDAMN RAISE YOU STUPID C*NT!

Further Information

Books

Das Kapital Volumes One, Two and Three by Karl Marx
Evolutionary Socialism by Eduard Bernstein
Why Socialism Works by Harrison Lievesley
Imperialism The Highest Stage of Capitalism by Vladimir Lenin
The Accumulation of Capital by Rosa Luxemburg
It's Time For Real Change: For the Many Not the Few by The U.K. Labour Party under the Leadership of Jeremy Corbyn.
Understanding Socialism by Richard D. Wolff

Wikipedia

Videos

Online Communities

Gallery