Famous People
"From each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs"
Who is Karl Marx?
An economic policy where all land is taken away from private owners and combined to be farmed by the people.
What is collectivization?
Believed in the separation of powers.
Who is Montesquieu?
Set up a model factory in New Lanark, Scotland.
Who is Robert Owen?
A period of reduced tensions.
What is detente?
This ideology believes in an elite group of citizens in power with equality for all others.
What is communism?
People were selfish and life was brutish. Therefore, people should give up their freedoms for safety.
Who is Hobbes?
He enacted the New Deal in 1933.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
This French phrase means "allow to do" with the idea being "let people do as they choose".
laissez faire
Absence of government
What is anarchy?
Believed people were reasonable and able to make rational decisions. Government action had to be justified by popular consent.
Who is Locke?
Implemented perestroika and glasnost in the Soviet Union.
Who is Gorbachev?
Black Friday (Stock Market crash)
What is 1929?
Favor a return to classical liberal beliefs.
What is neo-conservatism?
An ideology that says government should represent the legacy of the past as well as the well-being of the present. Society should be structured in a hierarchal fashion chosen by a limited electorate.
What is classical conservatism?
Believed that little government intervention in the economy was necessary. Author of Wealth of Nations.
Who is Adam Smith?
A form of government in which a small group of politicians are elected by a larger group of citizens
What is a representative democracy?
Humanitarians who advocated an end to the appalling conditions of the average worker in the capitalist countries of the 19th century.
What is utopian socialism?
Believed in direct democracy as it would reflect the general will better than a representative democracy.
Who is Rousseau?