Edexcel Politics 6. Socialism and Nationalism

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A self identifying group sharing characteristics such as culture, language, values, traditions, religion, and history

The historicist Marxist and fundamental socialist view that an existing stage/thesis (bourgeoisie) would be challenged by an antithesis (proletariat) leading to a reversal of roles and ultimately synthesis (communist society)

A term by Johann Herder for the spirit that binds people together, being cultural, historical, intellectual, &c.

The prime example of geography as a central focus of nationalism

That issue on which early forms of socialism most disagreed with liberalism, believing it to be unjust and a cause of conflict and avarice

Those factors that have been the two most significant barriers to the creation of nation-states in alphabetical order

The first detailed form of fundamental socialism defined by the beliefs of Marx and Engels in the Marxist dialectic, class consciousness, and historical materialism

That which believes that a ruling class has always exploited the ruled, requiring the proletariat to overthrow and abolish class itself

A branch of nationalism that emphasises common culture and history as central to the nation, promoting patriotism, exclusive nationalism, and imperialism

A form of expansionist nationalism predicated on a drive to seize foreign territory based on notions of racial superiority, such as Nazi Germany

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A classical revisionist socialist who emphasised the improvement of living conditions wrought by capitalism in the late 19th century, therefore causing him to promote evolutionary socialism

A synthesis of nationalism and popular democracy

Where the nation is seen as the most logical way of dividing people into stable political communities, with the nation serving the state

A controversial way of categorising people based on physical or genetic characteristics

That which socialists believe is centred on class (much defined at birth), on which people's lives and their potential is determined

A social democratic idea of equality that people should begin on a level playing field, inequalities being the result of meritocratic forces alone

The classical Marxist view of history as a series of stages defined by clashes of economic ideas as to the production and distribution of resources

A practioner and pioneer of the Third Way who emphasised the free market (though seeking state funding of infrastructure and education), as well as equality of opportunity to address the fracturing of formerly industrial, now service-based communities

That which Marxism believes should be based on common ownership of the means of production and property so as to end social conflict

That, the five principles of which are; collectivism, common humanity, equality, social class, and workers' control