POLI 212 Lecture Notes - Protestantism, Unit Process, Trade Union
28 Sep 2014
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Criteria changes from ownership of property to larger category of wage-earner working class. Right to vote becomes a political right. Extending right to vote to male wage earners even more empowers the. Capitalism would grow to produce a working class electorate that would grow in both absolute and relative size. It would however go through crises which would increase the size of the working class in relation to the other classes. Electoral socialists imagine the at some point in time the working class would be large enough to win power on its own. Critical juncture where radical socialism turns into social democracy. Trying to get support before that horn of the electoral dilemma of radical socialism: either it looks for support outside its core constituency, reconcile itself to a life of permanent political opposition. Southern type: labour excluded, nations and states. Two cases of states forming early and states forming late.
