"Isms"
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- Karl Marx
- came up with it
- Proletariat
- - the class of wage earners, esp. those who earn their living by manual labor or who are dependent for support on daily or casual employment; the working class.
- Utopian Socialism
- - an economic system based on the premise that if capital voluntarily surrendered its ownership of the means of production to the state or the workers, unemployment and poverty would be abolished.
- Charles Darwin
- came up with dawinism
- Evolution
- the idea that no two things are alike and that the ones with better "features" will survive and reproduce and eventually evolve
- Realism
- - interest in or concern for the actual or real, as distinguished from the abstract, speculative, etc.
- Communist Manifesto
- - a pamphlet (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: first statement of the principles of modern communism.
- Industrialism
- an economic organization of society built largely on mechanized industry rather than agriculture, craftsmanship, or commerce.
- Liberalism
- - a political or social philosophy advocating the freedom of the individual, parliamentary systems of government, nonviolent modification of political, social, or economic institutions to assure unrestricted development in all spheres of human endeavor, and governmental guarantees of individual rights and civil liberties
- Darwinism
- -theory of biological evolution developed by Charles Darwin and others, stating that all species of organisms arise and develop through the natural selection of small, inherited variations that increase the individual's ability to compete, survive, and reproduce
- Marxism
- The political and economic philosophy of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in which the concept of class struggle plays a central role in understanding society's allegedly inevitable development from bourgeois oppression under capitalism to a socialist and ultimately classless society.
- Romanticism
- often Romanticism An artistic and intellectual movement originating in Europe in the late 18th century and characterized by a heightened interest in nature, emphasis on the individual's expression of emotion and imagination, departure from the attitudes and forms of classicism, and rebellion against established social rules and conventions.
- Socialism
- - a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole.
- Nationalism
- - devotion and loyalty to one's own nation
- Otto von Bismarck
- german statesman: first chancellor of modern German Empire 1871-90.
- Conservatism
- he disposition to preserve or restore what is established and traditional and to limit change