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SocialismPresented By:Zarah S. Royo
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Socialism refers to any one ofvarious theories of economicorganization advocating state or
cooperative ownership andadministration of the means ofproduction and distribution of goods,and a society characterized by
equal opportunities/means for allindividuals with a more egalitarianmethod of compensation.
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Karl Marx posited that socialism(the disappearance of class and the
state) would be achieved via classstruggle and a proletarian revolutionafter a transitional stage from
capitalism called the Dictatorship ofthe proletariat.
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Economically, socialism denotesan economic system of state
ownership and/or worker ownershipof the means of production anddistribution.
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It is often thought that the idea ofsocialism derives from the work ofKARL MARX. In fact, Marx wrote only afew pages about socialism, as either amoral or a practical blueprint forsociety. The true architect of a socialist
order was Lenin, who first faced thepractical difficulties of organizing aneconomic system without the drivingincentives of profit seeking or the self-
generating constraints of COMPETITION.
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Lenin began from the long-standingdelusion that economic organizationwould become less complex once theprofit drive and the market mechanismhad been dispensed withas self-evident, he wrote, as the
extraordinarily simple operations ofwatching, recording, and issuingreceipts, within the reach of anybodywho can read and write and knows the
first four rules of arithmetic.
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Henri de Saint Simon, the firstindividual to coin the term socialism,
was the original thinker whoadvocated technocracy andindustrial planning. The first
socialists predicted a worldimproved by harnessing technologyand combining it with better socialorganization, and manycontemporary socialists share this
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Early socialist thinkers tended tofavor an authentic meritocracycombined with rational social planning,while many modern socialists have amore egalitarian approach. Socialistsadvocate the creation of a society inwhich wealth and power aredistributed more evenly based on theamount of work expended inproduction, although there is
considerable disagreement amongsocialists over how and to what extent
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The English word socialism(1839) derives from the French
socialisme (1832), the mainstreamintroduction of which usage isattributed, in France, to Pierre
Leroux and to Marie Roch LouisReybaud; and in Britain to RobertOwen in 1827, father of thecooperative movement.
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"Socialism cannot exist without achange in consciousness resulting
in a new fraternal attitude towardhumanity, both at an individual level,within the societies where socialism
is being built or has been built, andon a world scale, with regard to allpeoples suffering from imperialist
oppression."-Che Guevara Marxist revolutionar
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Marxist and non-Marxist socialtheorists agree that socialism
developed in reaction to modernindustrial capitalism, but disagreeon the nature of their relationship.mile Durkheim posits that
socialism is rooted in the desire tobring the state closer to the realm ofindividual activity, in countering theanomie of a capitalist society.
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In socialism, Max Weber sawacceleration of the rationalization
started in capitalism. As a critic ofsocialism, he warned that placingthe economy entirely in the state's
bureaucratic control would result inan "iron cage of future bondage".
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Characteristics of socialism
government ownership of resources
other than labor centralized economic decision-making
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Decentralized, worker-managed economicsystems. Cooperative economy, a largely free market economy
in which workers manage the firms and democraticallydetermine remuneration levels and labor divisions.Productive resources would be legally owned by the
cooperative and rented to the workers, who wouldenjoy usufruct rights. Participatory economics, wherein the economy is
planned by decentralized councils of workers andconsumers. Workers would be remunerated solelyaccording to effort and sacrifice, so that those engaged
in dangerous, uncomfortable, and strenuous workwould receive the highest incomes and could therebywork less.
Some Marxists and anarcho-communists also proposea worker-managed economy based on workerscouncils, however in anarcho-communism, workers areremunerated according to their needs (which arelargely self-determined in an anarcho-communists stem .
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Socialismdefined as a centrallyplanned economy in which the governmentcontrols all means of productionwas thetragic failure of the twentieth century. Born
of a commitment to remedy the economicand moral defects of CAPITALISM, it has farsurpassed capitalism in both economicmalfunction and moral cruelty. Yet the idea
and the ideal of socialism linger on. Whethersocialism in some form will eventually returnas a major organizing force in human affairsis unknown, but no one can accurately
appraise its prospects who have not takeninto account the dramatic story of its rise
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SocialismPresented By:Zarah S. Royo