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The law of supply and demand
Capitalism is driven by…
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Slow economic growth, less competition, lack of motivation by individuals due to lesser incentives.
What is considered a downfall of socialism?
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Desirability, Viability, and Achievability
What are the three things you would use to evaluate alternative forms of social organizations?
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Metis
As societies transition into a more complex society, we lose what type of knowledge?
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A perfect society
Utopia is the name for what kind of society?
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The means of production are in the hands of private individuals and firms. “Free Market”
What is the defining feature of Capitalism?
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The People
The root of the power is embedded in who in reference to statist socialism?
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Structural possibility
Wright mentioned an alternative strategy would be to shift from trajectory theory to a theory of....
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To purchase consumer goods and to counteract socialism.
What was the goal of " The American Dream" propaganda art?
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The policies of allowing virtually free rein to capital for enrichment.
What socialist policy failed in Venezuela?
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Law enforcement, voting, national defense, clean air, drinking water etc.
What is considered a “public good”?
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Power
Socialism fell apart due to the abuse of what?
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o Ignoring the warning about human imperfection
o Ignoring individual differences while substituting in the name of proclaimed goals such as equality, fairness, and justice rigid direction in place of individual choice. o Comes in practice, the choices of the ruler often have to be enforced using fear, terror, prison, and punishment.
What are the errors of anti-capitalist alternatives that Meltzer Referenced?
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Build new forms of social empowerment in the niches and margins of capitalism.
What is the idea of interstitial change?
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1.Disney
2. CBS 3. NBC 4. AMC 5. TimeWarner 6. A&E
What are 3 of the top 6 companies that control 90% of what we read, watch, and listen to?
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o The amount of time that it takes to get from one place to another
o Access to education o Individual Freedom o Promotes democracy o Free and competitive markets o Increase in living standards
What are the good features of Capitalism that Muller references in “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”?
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Authoritarianism
Socialism can often turn into what due to the overuse of power?
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1. The theory of crisis intensification
2. The theory of proletarianization 3. The theory of class capacity 4.The theory of ruptural transformation
What are one of Marx's theories he talked about in "Thinking About Alternatives To Capitalism"?
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Ideology, culture, and adaptive preference formation
What are the 3 mechanisms that shape the subjectivity of actors?
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The principles that tell us if we are moving in the right direction.
What does the socialist compass tell us that Wright mentioned in his article?
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Capitalist class relations perpetuate eliminable forms of human suffering, blocks the universalization of conditions for expansive human flourishing, perpetuates eliminable deficits in individual freedom and autonomy, violates liberal egalitarian principles of social justice, has a systematic bias towards consumerism, capitalist commodification threatens important broadly held values, corrodes community, limits democracy, fuels militarism and imperialism, environmentally destructive, inefficient in certain crucial aspects.
What is some of the eleven criticisms of capitalism Wright mentioned?
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He talks about property rights that the bourgeoisie wish to protect are actually bourgeois property rights. Property itself is considered a social commodity. Changing private property into communal property is really only changing the social character of property. All of these ideas he references have lasted throughout history only because exploitation has lasted throughout history.
How is the proletariat different from past revolutionary classes that Marx talked about in The Communist Manifesto?
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1. Communal living/property
2. Complex marriage 3. Male continence 4. Gender equality 5. Ascending fellowship 6. Mutual criticism
Name three of the six community rules under the Oneida Community that was founded by John Humphrey Noyes who believed in perfectionism.
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1.Coercion
2.Institutional Rules 3.Ideology and Culture 4.Material Interests
What are the 4 things that interferes with the ability of people to change the system/address harms?
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Dropped weapons and drugs to sell on the black market, by passing the rules by buying weapons from Iran. (Lead to the Iran-Contra Affair)
How did Reagan support the contras?
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