POLI 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Civic Nationalism, Mikhail Bakunin, Authoritarianism
15 Oct 2014
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Poli 100 lecture 6 sept 19th, 2014. Division within socialism differ in both method and ends goals. Divided on the point of how it will happen: by popular uprising (marx, by way of a disciplined party (lenin) Lenin was the norm in ussr: evolutionary. Universal suffrage can make socialism through democratic means. Assumes that the state can be responsive to the interests of the working class. Socialism and the state: marx: the state exists solely for the benefit of the ruling class, eliminate classes and there is no role for the state. Lowers the haves & raises the have nots: lenin: the state as dictatorship of the proletariat , the state remains in place to assure. Socialism and publib ownership: where does one draw the line b/w public / pricate, how much can be permissible under banner of socialism, can ownership be decentralized to workers cooperatives or even as far as. Key socialist principles: generally quite optimistic of human nature.
