Concept
State socialism
Overview
classification of socialist political or economic ideology
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For as long as the oppressed class, in this case the proletariat, is not ripe for its economic emancipation, just so long will its majority regard the existing order of society as the only one possible, and form the tail, the extreme left wing, of the capitalist class. But the more the proletariat matures toward its self-emancipation, the more does it constitute itself as a separate class and elect its own…
Friedrich Engels, The origin of the family, private property, and the state
The author is tied to State socialism in the knowledge graph.
Naturally, inevitably, the students of political science have been preoccupied with this great historic phenomenon, and their intellectual activities have been directed to its systematic formulation. Because the contemporary progressive movement was to establish the unified state against the inertia of minor social units and against the ambitions of rivals for power, political theory developed the dogma of the…
John Dewey, Reconstruction in Philosophy
Close in meaning to State socialism; the term itself is not named.
State Socialism might easily universalize the system of scholarships obtained by competitive examination, and if it did so it is to he feared that it would be very harmful. State Socialists at present tend to be enamored of the systems which is exactly of the kind that every bureaucrat loves: orderly, neat, giving a stimulus to industrious habits, and involving no waste of a sort that could be tabulated in…
Bertrand Russell, Proposed Roads to Freedom
States what State socialism is; names State socialism twice.
Related ideas
- Austrian school of economics
- Vladimir Lenin
- Friedrich Hayek
- Anarchism
- Worker cooperative
- Individualist anarchism
- Statism
- Karl Marx
- Labor theory of value
- Leon Trotsky
- Mutualism (economic theory)
- Libertarian socialism
- Social democracy
- Marxism
- Fabian Society
- Ferdinand Lassalle
- Marxism–Leninism
- Henri de Saint-Simon
- Welfare state
- October Revolution
- Collective ownership
- Revolution
- Syndicalism
- Soviet Union
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Social democracy.