| What is socialism? | Socialism emerged as an attempt to find an alternative to capitalism, seeking to find a more humane economic system. |
| What is Marxism? | A form of revolutionary socialism involving the belief in the inevitability of a mass uprising of the proletariat, leading to revolution. |
| What is fraternity? | the brotherhood/sisterhood of all. Socialists believe in community, seeing the bonds between people as stronger than the divisions |
| What is evolutionary socialism? | this involves the rejection of revolutionary politics, and a belief that socialism can be achieved peacefully and gradually through the existing constitutional system |
| What is Keynesian Economics? | Keynesian economics includes the state manages market forces to ensure steady growth and employment, Social democrats believe this would finance increased public spending thus greater equality. |
| What is Social Justice? | A type of justice that goes past legal and formal justice. It includes healthcare and education being accessible to all and a minimum wage for workers |
| What is class consciousness? | A by-product of capitalism that would be especially pronounced amongst the downtrodden working class or proletariat. It would eventually be the engine for revolution and capitalism's destruction |
| What is capitalism? | The system of property ownership developed after feudalism. It consists of private ownership of the systems of production and redistribution. Its tendency to produce unequal outcomes is a concern for many socialists. |
| What is dialectic? | Refers to the clash of ideas and perceptions that will inevitably take place within each stage of history and will eventually lead to the disappearance of the existing society |
| What is historical materialism? | The idea that the causes of change in society is the conflict between classes, be it a feudal lord and peasant or a bourgeois factory owner proletariat |
| What is communism? | an economic system in which the means of production are owned in the common rather than by individuals and where social class and inequality are abolished |
| What is cooperation? | The idea that humans are malleable and moulded by circumstances but tend to lean towards altruism. We are social beings and naturally work with others. |
| What is revionism? | the belief that socialism can be achieved without the destruction of capitalism and private properties, and without the upheaval of a revolution. A form of evolutionary socialism. Associated with Edward Bernstein |
| What is common ownership? | a method of ownership that ensures that the needs of the many override those of the few. it is synonyms with state ownership and public ownership |
