Important Figures
This senator popularized democratic socialism in American politics during the late 2010's.
Who is Bernie Sanders?
This tragic event in 1911 transformed modern workers' rights and workplace safety laws due to the high death toll and avoidable safety hazards such as blocked exits and fire escapes.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire?
This work argues that for a true "scientific socialism" to be established, a revolutionary class struggle would have to take place first.
What is the Communist Manifesto?
This is the economic and political system where the government owns and manages most of the means of production and distribution rather than private ownership.
What is socialism?
This book published in 1945 critiques Stalinism and the abuse of power by using animals as characters.
What is George Orwell's Animal Farm?
These two German philosophers worked together to create the foundation of modern socialist and communist theory.
Who is Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels?
This organization came together in 1866 to establish the 8-hour workday.
What is the National Labor Union?
This 18th century, European political uprising's radical ideas helped lay the foundation for modern socialist thought.
What is the French Revolution?
This term describes the wealthy ruling class who owns the means of production and private property.
What is the bourgeoisie?
This 2019 Oscar-winning thriller critiques the structural inequalities and exploitation present in modern-day capitalism.
What is Parasite?
This Cuban communist revolutionary leader played a central role in the Cuban Revolution and would establish Cuba as a socialist state.
Who is Che Guevara?
This collection of programs, projects, and reforms transformed U.S. labor laws during the 1930s by establishing federal protections for collective bargaining, minimum wages, and maximum work hours.
What is the New Deal?
This type of belief relied on a centralized organization of revolutionaries to lead the working class referred to as a Vanguard Party.
What is Leninism?
This term describes the self-understanding of social class which is created out of a collective struggle.
What is class consciousness?
This famous French painter was a member of the French Communist Party created the dove of peace symbol in 1949 and used his art to support anti-fascist movements.
Who is Pablo Picasso?
The German publisher of the article "Why Socialism?" who argued that the capitalist society was the real source of societal evils.
Who is Albert Einstein?
This violent industrial strike in 1892 at the Carnegie Steel Company in ended the iron and steel workers' union.
What is the Homestead Strike?
This event in 1917 lead to the first self-declared socialist state.
What is the Russian Revolution?
This term describes the working class of people who do not own any means of production and must earn money by selling their labor.
What is the proletariat?
This Greek philosopher's Republic featured a collective society that historians view as early philosophical roots of socialism.
Who is Plato?
This Welsh utopian socialist pioneer fought to improve factory working conditions and was one of few to coin the word "socialism."
Who is Robert Owen?
Often thought of as the first labor union in the United States, this union was founded in 1869 and consisted of garment cutters organizing to fight child labor, demand equal pay for women, and push for the fair treatment of workers.
Who were the Knights of Labor?
This political faction separated into it's own organization from the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1912.
What are the Bolsheviks?
This term describes the labor movement ideology that seeks to organize workers into trade unions to abolish capitalism.
What is syndicalism?
This art style was used in the Soviet Union to promote Marxist-Leninist ideology and painted figures such as Joseph Stalin as powerful and encourage hope for a socialist future.
What is socialist realism?