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==Variants==
===[[File:ProgSoc.png]] '''Progressive Socialism'''===▼
===[[File:RevSoc.png]] '''Revolutionary Socialism'''===
'''Revolutionary Socialism''' is a political philosophy, doctrine, and tradition within socialism that stresses the idea that a social revolution is necessary to bring about structural changes in society. More specifically, it is the view that revolution is a necessary precondition for transitioning from a capitalist to a socialist mode of production. Revolution is not necessarily defined as a violent insurrection; it is defined as a seizure of political power by mass movements of the working class so that the state is directly controlled or abolished by the working class as opposed to the capitalist class and its interests. It encompasses many movements, such as movements based on [[File:Ormarxf.png]] [[Marxism|orthodox Marxist]] theory such as [[File:Deleon.png]] [[De Leonism]], [[File:Impossible.png]] [[Impossibilism|impossibilism]] and [[File:Luxem.png]] [[Classical Social Democracy|Spartacism]], as well as movements based on [[File:Orthlen.png]] [[Leninism]] and the theory of [[File:Vanguardism.png]] [[Particracy|vanguardist-led]] revolution such as [[File:Mao.png]] [[Maoism]], [[File:ML.png]] [[Marxism–Leninism]] and [[File: Trot.png]] [[Trotskyism]]. Revolutionary socialism also includes other Marxist, Marxist-inspired and non-Marxist movements such as those found in [[File:Demsocstar.png]] [[Democratic Socialism|democratic socialism]], [[File:RevSynd.png]] [[Syndicalism|revolutionary syndicalism]], [[File:Awaj.png]] [[Anarchism|anarchism]] and [[File:Socdem.png]] [[Social Democracy|social democracy]].
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Revolutionary socialism is contrasted with reformist socialism, especially the reformist wing of [[File:Socdem.png]] social democracy and other evolutionary approaches to socialism and is opposed to social movements that seek to gradually ameliorate capitalism's economic and social problems through [[File:Reform.png]] political reform.
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'''Lumpenproletariat Socialism''' is socialism from below, an oppressed or dangerous underclass as described by Marx & Engels in the Communist manifesto. The lumpenproletariat is defined by an inability of class concisciousness or mass organisation required for a socialism revolution this means that lumpenproletariat socialism is a form of [[File:Utsoc.png]] [[Utopian Socialism]] and will not make large scale transformations in society. Marx believed that this made them especially dangerous as they could cause the extreme level of violence expected in a revolution but without any of the emancipation that a revolution should accomplish. It comes in several different forms due to the vagueness of Marx's definition of lumpenproletariat, it could include serfs/peasants, minority groups, criminals, prostitutes, immigrants, luddites and the chronically unemployed. Basically the people that are most victimised by capitalism or feudalism to the point where they lose total control of themselves.
====[[File:Agsoc.png]] '''Peasant Socialism'''====
'''Peasant Socialism''' is what is achieved in the rare case of a successful peasant revolt it is often a primitive form of socialism with the sharing of all goods in a theocratic realm such as the Münster rebellion. It does not necessarily abolish kings as the rebel Wat Tyler in the 1381 English revolt flew the banner of House Normandie as he marched on London town. However Marx and Engels did not believe that peasants were such a dangerous class because they could become capable of class consciousness to organise into a proper socialist revolution as Mao and Lenin claimed to accomplish in their respective countries.
====[[File:BlackSocialism.png]] '''Minority Socialism'''====
'''Minority Socialism''' is when oppressed minority groups such as Afro-Americans organise and revolt against the state to escape oppression. However as this is not a class-based revolution it fails to create a truly socialist state, either by not drawing enough support to topple the state from their own communities or due to the alienation of the racial majority working class. An example of this is the African National Congress (ANC) which declared itself socialist and in many respects was revolutionary under the Apartheid system in place from 1948 to the 1990s. However despite coming to power in 1994 the ANC did not implement socialism by any streach of imagination and after now 30 years of ANC rule South Africa is still extremely segregated as racial politics do not lead to emancipation from capital.
====[[File:Ludd.png]] '''Luddism'''====
'''Luddism''' as a ideology arouse out of the Luddite movement, which was active in the early 19th century with the introduction of machinery, which served the purpose both of reducing labor costs by employing workers for tasks that didn't require much skill, thus making the market for that labor larger driving the cost down and to be able to mass produce goods which served to get the price of commodities down for the owner. The Luddites disliked technology for the first reasons stated above, believing that through the introduction of machinery the skilled worker would loose his importance and the regular worker would in effect become a commodity. So in protest the Luddites began destroying machines in protest essentially serving as a early form of sabotage, this is also where the Luddites got their name, from the legend of Ned Ludd, a textile worker who rose up against his masters by destroying the machine he worked at. Whether Ned Ludd really existed or didn't is unknown.
'''Feudal Socialism''' is what occurs to the landed aristocracy after capitalism takes root in a country and gradually usurps power away from the gentry and gives it to the bourgeoise. The aristocrats notice this happening of course so they attempt to stop capitalism from growing through protective trade laws, beneficial tax laws and opposing democratic reforms. However when these fail to stop capitalism from supplanting aristocrats many turn to a new solution of masking as the workers' champions who stand up to the exploitative capitalists, many claim that under feudalism serfs were well-off due to their Lords' honour and noble hearts. While forgetting all the oppression that they made workers endure for millennia. The two most succesful forms of feudal socialism are Metternich as he ruled over Europe from the end of the Napoleonic wars to the European Spring. The second is Young England in the UK who managed to get their president, at a time, Benjamin Disraeli elected Prime Minister who then created one-nation conservatism which has remained a force in British politics to the modern day.
'''Clerical Socialism''' is similar to feudal socialism in many ways as the church gradually loses its influence and power with the rise of capitalism so it weaponised religious texts, which often condemn greed; private property, selfishness and inequality. However once again forgetting its own historic oppression of the working classes to save their own power, due to the shrunken influence of the church this ideology has never had much success so even Marx lumps them into the Feudal Socialism category in the Communist Manifesto.
===[[File:BourgConSoc.png]] [[Social Capitalism|Bourgeois Socialism]]===
'''Bourgeois Socialism''' or '''Conservative Socialism''' was a term used by [[File:Ormarxf.png]] Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in various pieces, including in ''The Communist Manifesto''. ''Conservative socialism'' was used as a rebuke by Marx for certain strains of socialism, but it has also been used by proponents of such a system. Bourgeois socialists are described as those that advocate for preserving the existing society using various means to only eliminate perceived evils of the system. Conservative socialism and '' [[File:SocRight.png]] right wing socialism'' are also used as a descriptor, and in some cases as a pejorative, by [[File:Libcon.png]] free-market conservative and [[File:Libertarian_Capitalism.png]] right-libertarian movements and politicians to describe more [[File:Regulationism.png]] economically interventionist strands of conservatism.
The Marxist view is such that the bourgeois socialist is the sustainer of the current state of bourgeois class relations. In the Principles of Communism Engels describes them as "so-called socialists" who only seek to remove the evils inherent in capitalist society while maintaining the existing society often relying on methods such as [[File:Welf.png]] welfare systems and grandiose claims of [[File:Left Reformism.png]] social reform. Opinions vary as to whether if bourgeois socialist is actively protecting or intentionally excusing the current order, but the common thread is that they are in objective fact preserving it. Rather than [[File:Abolitionism.png]] abolishing class divisions, they wish to simply raise everyone up to be a member of the bourgeoisie to allow everyone the ability to endlessly accumulate capital without a working class. In ''The Communist Manifesto'', Marx and Engels use philanthropists, monks ("temperance fanatics") and reformers as examples of this type of socialist that they saw as opposed to their own aims. In expressing its views on the subject, Marx explicitly referenced [[File:Mutalist.png]] Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's ''The Philosophy of Poverty'', stating the following about bourgeois socialism:
<blockquote>The Socialistic bourgeois want all the advantages of modern social conditions without the struggles and dangers necessarily resulting therefrom.</blockquote>
===[[File:SocialistCorporatism.png]] [[Guild Socialism|Petty-Bourgeoise Socialism]]===
'''Petty-Bourgeoise Socialism''' is an attempt by the petite bourgeoise to prevent their complete destruction from the revolutionary proletariat in their socialism or by the bourgeoise in their capitalism as it is a class that would be destroyed by both systems. This means that the petite bourgeoise want what is essentially a flash freeze on capitalism in order to stop further instability and concentration of wealth while also stopping further agitation of the working class to prevent revolution. This class also forgets the exploitative nature of guild masters to tradesmen in the middle ages in addition to the exploitative merchants and burgesses while romaticising the stability that their system brought. What makes someone petite bourgeoise is when they are in such a position that socialism and capitalism, as imagined by their followers, would destroy them or when a working person betrays their class in order to side with the bourgeoise because of their aspirations to become one of the bourgeoise in the future. It is for these reasons that the petite bourgeoise is associated with fascism as only with extreme state control could the bourgeoise be prevented from further agitating the proletariat, this means that petty-bourgeoise socialism could be seen as a modern variant of feudal socialism.
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