To what extent have socialists disagreed about the means of achieving socialism?
Socialism along with many other ideologies has a vast number of different strands and with a couple of different roads to achieving what is fundamentally socialism. Socialism being the ideology that utilises collectivisation to bring people together and to unite people by their common humanity. The two most obvious roads of socialism would be that of revolutionary socialism and also that of evolutionary socialism. This are taken on by two different types of socialists, revisionist socialists and fundamentalist socialists. Revolutionary socialism is the belief that capitalism can only be overthrown by revolution against the current political system. To them…show more content… On the other hand a working class must the numerical majority for revolutionists in order for the attempt to overthrow the Bourgeoisie to be successful. On top of this the attraction to revolution began to fall as the working class have steadily become more integrated into society today. In addition a number of institutions began to immerge including trade unions and working men’s clubs which ensured that the ever narrowing working class were being represented. To sum up, both roads recognise the importance of highlighting the working class as the numerical majority and state the fact that they should be concentrated on, however the requirement for it were for different reasons and they acted as different types of political force in each case. There is also a large disagreement when it comes to the outcome of capitalism. Capitalism is seen by revolutionists as a large scale exploitation of those at the bottom of it. As a result they think that capitalism should be completely erased and wiped completely. They think that capitalism should be removed and replaced by complete collectivism in which everything will be shared equally. Evolutionists on the other hand think that capitalism should be harness and converted into a process that is more suited for all classes. They do not want to remove it completely which is shown by its inclusions in social democratic manifestos. Capitalism also relates to the triggers that would be
