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* [[File:Nordmodel.png]] [[Nordic Model|He's Nothing like me!]] - I mean... you're tolerable I guess. I'm just really annoyed at how Americans constantly say you're a version of me, including my own supporters. We aren't even similar.
* [[File:Nordmodel.png]] [[Nordic Model|He's Nothing like me!]] - I mean... you're tolerable I guess. I'm just really annoyed at how Americans constantly say you're a version of me, including my own supporters. We aren't even similar.
* [[File:Strasser.png]] [[Strasserism]] - Too antisemetic for my liking. But at least you're better than [[File:Nazi.png]] him.
* [[File:Strasser.png]] [[Strasserism]] - Too antisemetic for my liking. But at least you're better than [[File:Nazi.png]] him.
* [[File:Kemal.png]] [[Kemalism]] - We never forget Kadroist comrades.


===Enemies===
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Revision as of 20:24, 26 December 2021

Flag of Socialism

Socialism is an ideology used to represent the broad range of ideologies that fall under the umbrella term of "Socialism". In the classical sense, socialism describes worker-owned means of production, heavily supporting worker coops, democratic self-management, and workplace democracy. But much of the conservative western world says that socialism is an authoritarian leftist ideology, in which a bureaucratic state controls the means of production, in a bureaucratic way. But the modern definition of the word socialism, popularised by European Social Democrats, and the Democratic Socialists of America, is "any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods." Socialism in the modern age advocates workers' democratic self-management, high taxation on the wealthy, nationalisation over key parts of industry, and preventing climate change. Socialism is always economically left, and culturally neutral however has found itself becoming synonymous with progressivism. But you do get ideologies like Conservative Socialism and more extreme ones like Strasserism and National Bolshevism, that combine Socialist economics, with conservative cultural preservation, due to their shared Populist standpoint.

History (WIP)

Socialism as a political movement is rooted in the French Revolution and Jacobinism, although notable proto-socialist figures and movements existed before this. The first socialist thinkers were social critics and philosophers of the 19th century from Western Europe. These socialist thinkers followed what would later be dubbed, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Utopian Socialism, due to their lack of materialist analysis and bourgeois nature. Among these thinkers were Charles Fourier, Henri de Saint-Simon, and Robert Owen. Despite all these thinkers being considered Utopian Socialists, their philosophies differed greatly in many ways, with Owen's ideology resembling Socialism in the modern sense more so than the other two.

Robert Owen would go on to develop several socialist communes and villages, being the first to attempt to actualize a socialist society, though these projects were often on a small scale and subject to much criticism.

In France, during the first half of the 19th century, socialist philosophers and politicians continued to popularize socialism. It is in France during this time that many socialists started to reject the gradualism and utilization of utopian communes of the older Utopian Socialists. The term "socialism" was first used in a French Utopian Socialist newspaper. There also emerged a Christian Socialist movement in France led by Philippe Buchez. Moreover, during this time, French socialist literature, which would prove to be highly consequential, was being published, most notably What Is Property? by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon.

In the 19th century, Anarchism as a movement arose, and was incorporated into the socialist movement. This is seen with thinkers such as the aforementioned Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, whose socialistic anarchism was market-oriented, as well as with more communistic anarchists, like the Russian Mikhail Bakunin, who sought a collectivist anarchist society which would utilize labor vouchers, as well as the prominent anarchist communist Peter Kropotkin, who sought a completely communistic society, devoid of any form of currency whatsoever. Anarchism when combined with socialist principles would later come to be known as Social Anarchism.

Marxism, which arose from Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, became the most influential socialist philosophy in history. Marx and Engels ideas on philosophy, political economy, sociology and history were influenced primarily by George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, classical economists such as Adam Smith and David Ricardo, the earlier utopian socialists, and socialist ideals which arose in revolutionary France. Marx and Engels devised a materialist philosophy of history known as historical materialism, and called their form of socialism "scientific socialism" in contrast with utopian socialism. Marxism differed from Utopian Socialism in that it viewed history as a series of class struggles, and saw moving towards socialism within capitalism as futile, instead advocating for revolution.

Personality

An artwork portraying a revolutionary holding a rifle with a red flag on it.

Soc is usually portrayed as a stereotypical industrial-era unionized worker who really loves striking against his boss and usually will follow the personality traits of the various types of socialism portrayed.

How to Draw

Socialism is a unicolour ball of Red, a colour associated with Socialism for a pretty long time. Especially in the form of "The Red Flag".

  1. Draw a ball.
  2. Draw two eyes on the ball.
  3. Fill the ball red.
  4. (Optional) Add a white hammer to differentiate it from the Authleft quadrant ball

And you're done.

Relationships

Friends

Frenemies

  • Stalinism - You managed to uphold a powerful communist state, but you're really making me look bad.
  • Welfarism - Based, but go further.
  • National Bolshevism - My crazy Nazi descendant.
  • Reactionary Socialism - My utopian stepchild, like his mother but for some reason very racist and antisemitic. I think that your siblings will like you more if you just calm down with the extreme reactionary views.
  • Distributism - So close to perfection. Just drop the whole private property thing and we're good.
  • Social Democracy - We have similar values but do you honestly think capitalism can be truly reformed?
  • Longism - Same as above.
  • Liberal Socialism - You're a socialist but you're also a lib so...
  • Globalism - I don't like the unregulated international trade thing, but I like when you help the third world and I also like Socialist Internationalism (mostly).
  • Dengism - Our relationship is complicated to say the least. Are you capitalist or communist? However, Xi Jinping is based and you've done a good job with arresting billionaires, recently.
  • Juche - Wait, how are we related?
  • Classical Liberalism - I remember our good 'ol rivalries, good times.
  • Capitalist Communism - My weird grand nephew.
  • Yellow Socialism - Red socialism is better than yellow socialism, but at least you try.
  • He's Nothing like me! - I mean... you're tolerable I guess. I'm just really annoyed at how Americans constantly say you're a version of me, including my own supporters. We aren't even similar.
  • Strasserism - Too antisemetic for my liking. But at least you're better than him.
  • Kemalism - We never forget Kadroist comrades.

Enemies

Further Information

Literature

Wikipedia

People

Youtube

Videos

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