Ideologies quotes and theorists

flashcards for quotes and theorists/theories, for Anarchism, Conservatism, Liberalism, and Socialism

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utopian socialists
Robert Owen and Charles Fourier (philansteries), R H Tawney (ethical socialism)
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William Godwin
"perfectibility is the most unequivocal characteristic of the human species"
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Beatrice and Sidney Webb
the inevitability of gradualism, democratic socialism
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Tony Blair and Bill Clinton
The Third Way
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Marx
"the history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggle" - Marxism, Class Struggle, the Proletariat and the Bourgeoisie
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Emma Goldman
claimed that the government was symbolised by "the club, the gun, the handcuff, or the prison"
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Rousseau
"man was born free, yet everywhere he is in chains"
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Bakunin
"where the state begins, individual liberty ceases", "political power and wealth are inseparable", "social solidarity is the first human law, freedom is the second"
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Kropotkin
Mutual Aid
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Proudhon
"all property is theft", "to be governed is to be watched over", mutualism
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Georges Sorel
said anarcho-syndicalism, a form of revolutionary trade unionism, would come about through a general strike
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Wolff
"the autonomous man, insofar as he is autonomous, is not subject to the will of another"
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Max Stirner
egoism
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Thomas Jefferson and Henry Thoreau
"government is best which governs least" - Jefferson, "government is best which governs not at all" - Thoreau
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Robert Nozick
anarcho-capitalism, the belief that the market can satisfy all human wants
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Durkheim
anomie (a weakening of values)
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Oakeshott
"the political world is boundless and bottomless"
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Burke
"what has stood the test of time is good and should not be cast aside lightly", "change in order to conserve", "a partnership between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are yet to be born"
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Ian Gilmour
"the wise Conservative travels light"
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Disraeli
"if the cottage are happy, the castle is safe"
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Thatcher
"there is no such thing as society", "the lady's not for turning"
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Isiah Berlin
negative and positive freedom
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Voltaire
"I detest what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
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Hobbes
"solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short"
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Locke
"where there is no law, there is no freedom", nightwatchman state
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Thomas Paine
the state is "a necessary evil"
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Adam Smith
"an invisible hand"
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William Sumner
"the drunk in the gutter is just where he ought to be"
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T H Green
positive individual freedom, with state help and intervention where necessary
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1942 Beveridge Report
sought to eradicate the Five Giants - want, disease, ignorance, squalor, and idleness
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Rawls
social liberalism, "equality as fairness"
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Alexis de Tocqueville
"tyranny of the majority"
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Lord Acton
"power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely"
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J S Mill
"over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign"
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G K Chesterton
"democracy of the dead"
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"perfectibility is the most unequivocal characteristic of the human species"

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William Godwin

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the inevitability of gradualism, democratic socialism

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The Third Way

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"the history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggle" - Marxism, Class Struggle, the Proletariat and the Bourgeoisie

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