Edexcel Politics 6. Socialism and Nationalism

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A belief that rejects nationalism in favour of common class solidarity, i.e. 'the working man has no country'

The prime example of geography as a central focus of nationalism

Those socialists such as Robert Owen who emphasised cooperation and communal ownership, considered naive by Marx

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

The form taken by nationalism in the UK, as a force to unite disparate peoples and classes rather than seek liberation or territorial unification

A form of expansionist nationalism and extreme patriotism which sees one nation's characteristics as superior to all others, such as de Gaulle's France

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

The minority belief that national identity is determined by fixed biological factors, with people belonging to separate 'races' with different natures

That branch of socialism usually identified with communism that seeks the establishment of socialism by means of revolution

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That the origin of which is as a term denoting people who share common circumstances of birth

A conservative nationalist belief that it takes time for one to belong to a nation, for which they should abandon their customs and assimilate

An idea by Jean Jacques Rousseau of the collective will of the people as a whole, criticsed by some as a tyranny of the majority

That which socialists view optimistically by seeing it as malleable, cooperative, altruistic, and fraternal, though these attributes having been diluted by capitalism

A form of expansionist nationalism which seeks to recreate past glories by unifying people around the armed forces as in 1930's Imperial Japan

The two countries in which social democracy developed during the 1940's and 1950's in alphabetical order

Where national identity is focussed around the institutions and ideals of the state such as in the US Constitution due to no shared history as is often encouraged of immigrants in the form of citizenship tests

A form of evolutionary socialism believing that socialism can be achieved without revolution or the destruction of capitalism

A French ultra-conservative nationalist and nativist who opposed liberal ideology, supporting monarchy, Catholicism, and above all the nation as integral to forming a powerful collective identity

A democratic socialist view of Beatrice Webb's that voters, having no vested interest in capitalism, would elect socialist governments which would lead to a gradual development and progress of socialism