socialism

Examples of socialism in the following topics:

• Progressivism and Religion

  • Social Gospel held that Christians were called to combat social ills such as injustice and poverty.
  • A major component was the Social Gospel Movement, which applied Christianity to social issues and gained its force from the Awakening, as did the worldwide missionary movement.
  • With Jane Addams's Hull House in Chicago as its center, the settlement house movement and the vocation of social work were deeply influenced by the Social Gospel.
  • Denver, Colorado, was a center of Social Gospel activism.
  • Most began programs for social reform, which led to ecumenical cooperation and, in 1910, in the formation of the Federal Council of Churches, although this cooperation about social issues often led to charges of socialism.

• Markets and Missionaries

  • The Social Gospel was a Protestant movement that was most prominent in the early 20th century United States and Canada.
  • Denver, Colorado, was a center of Social Gospel activism.
  • Biographer Randall Woods argues that Social Gospel themes learned from childhood allowed Lyndon B.
  • Johnson to transform social problems into moral problems.
  • Pastor Dwight Moody: preacher, evangelist and publisher in the Social Gospel movement

• The Social Gospel

  • The movement applied Christian ethics to social problems, especially issues of social justice such as excessive wealth, poverty, alcoholism, crime, racial tensions, slums, bad hygiene, child labor, inadequate labor unions, poor schools, and the danger of war.
  • Social Gospel leaders were predominantly associated with the liberal wing of the Progressive Movement and most were theologically liberal, although they were typically conservative when it came to their views on social issues.
  • Denver, Colorado, was a center of Social Gospel activism.
  • The South had its own version of the Social Gospel, focusing especially on prohibition.
  • The Social Gospel affected much of Protestant America.

• Social Darwinism in America

  • American Social Darwinism held that the social classes had no obligation towards those unequipped or under-equipped to compete for survival.
  • A different form of social Darwinism was part of the ideological foundations of Nazism and other fascist movements.
  • Burgess, and others developed theories of social evolution as a result of their exposure to the works of Darwin and Spencer.
  • In 1883, William Graham Sumner published a highly influential pamphlet entitled What Social Classes Owe to Each Other, in which he insisted that the social classes owe each other nothing, synthesizing Darwin's findings with free enterprise capitalism for his justification.
  • Describe the role that Darwinian ideas about natural selection had in the social science and public policy of the late 19th-century

• A Halfway Revolution

  • The New Deal has often been called the "halfway revolution. " Essentially, this critique of the New Deal claims that the New Deal did not go far enough in its social or economic reforms.
  • Conservatives feared the New Deal meant socialism; Roosevelt noted privately in 1934 that the "old line press harps increasingly on state socialism and demands the return to the good old days. " However, the New Deal's record also came under attack by New Left historians in the 1960s for not attacking capitalism more vigorously, nor helping blacks achieve equality.
  • The critics emphasized the absence of a philosophy of reform to explain the failure of New Dealers to attack fundamental social problems.
  • As mentioned, while it is often criticized that the New Deal did not go far enough as far as social reform, the United States has a number of social welfare programs that trace their legacy to the New Deal era.
  • The Social Security system is the largest and most prominent social aid program, and this was established with New Deal legislation.

• Social Security and Tax Reform

  • The United States was the only modern industrial country where people faced the Depression without any national system of social security.
  • The most important program of 1935, and perhaps the New Deal as a whole, was the Social Security Act, drafted by Francis Perkins.
  • It established a permanent system of universal retirement pensions (Social Security), unemployment insurance, and welfare benefits for the handicapped and needy.
  • With those taxes in there, no damn politician can ever scrap my social security program. "
  • Compared with the social security systems in western European countries, the Social Security Act of 1935 was rather conservative.

• Social Justice

  • Progressive reformers tried to achieve social justice by targeting poverty and all forms of social and political corruption.
  • The Progressive Era witnessed an increasing interest in social reforms.
  • For example, Jane Addams of Chicago's Hull House typified the leadership of residential, community centers operated by professionalized social workers and volunteers and located in inner city slums.
  • Leading intellectuals also shaped the political and social progressive mentality.
  • In sum, the "Progressive Era" is a broadly construed term that refers to a myriad of social, cultural, and political reform movements advocated by otherwise disparate interest groups and political parties that were reacting to the modernizing, industrializing economic and social situation that arose by the turn of the century.

• The Social Problem

  • New social problems emerged from industrialization, threatening to increase unemployment, poverty, and unequal distribution of wealth.
  • Science also played an important part in social thought as the work of Charles Darwin became popular.
  • Following Darwin's idea of natural selection, English philosopher Herbert Spencer proposed the idea of social Darwinism.
  • Not everyone agreed with the social Darwinists, and soon a whole movement to help the poor arose.
  • Analyze the responses to the poverty and social inequality that emerged during the Gilded Age

• The Age of Reforms

  • The Second Great Awakening spurred waves of social change and reform.
  • Efforts to apply Christian teaching to the resolution of social problems presaged the Social Gospel of the late 19th century.
  • The Second Great Awakening served as an "organizing process" that created "a religious and educational infrastructure" across the western frontier that encompassed social networks, a religious journalism that provided mass communication, and church-related colleges.
  • They did not stem entirely from the Second Great Awakening, but the revivalist doctrine and the expectation that one's conversion would lead to personal action accelerated the role of women's social benevolence work.
  • Social activism influenced abolition groups and supporters of the temperance movement.

• Socialism and the Unions

  • Socialism is a range of economic and social systems characterised by social ownership and democratic control of the means of production, as well as the political ideologies, theories, and movements that aim at their establishment.
  • Socialism often overlapped with union and labor activities.
  • Gronlund was converted to socialism by Blaise Pascal's Pensées, and gave up the practice of law to write and lecture on socialism.
  • That being said, he thought that social equality between the black and white races could and would be established.
  • Evaluate the relationship between socialism and labor during the Gilded Age