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Socialism - Coggle Diagram
Socialism
Makes people
happy.
Better economic security
Equality
Prevents alienation from work
Capitalism
does not
make people happy
How does one become happy?
What is happiness anyway?
An age old question, starting from the Greeks
Materialist doctrine
: According to Marx: human beings are naturally productive, sociable beings who find fulfillment and meaning in their lives through the free exercise of their natural powers. They fulfill themselves through their creations, so that what they make is an expression of what they are. Unless something perverts their efforts, their lives will have meaning in virtue of their productive, sociable activity.
Therefore, we could intertwine the
History of Socialism
with the
history of Happiness
Would there be any problems to assuming that every human endeavor was in fact due to their pursuit of human happiness?
There are many theories about human happiness in general, but in the Marxist sense,
certain epochs have certain values
The banality of being a worker, without fulfillment and excitement is undoubtedly a sad life
Take a look at the cultural flourishing in the arts and sciences of the Soviet era. Even George Lucas had to admit that they were very much free from economic control
The theory of production of surplus value, in particular, which showed how surplus value as the social source of profit, interest, and ground rent is extracted from the surplus labour of wage workers, was epoch-making in scientifically clarifying the economic basis of class relations in a capitalist society
For it to be much more philosophical however, it will be useful to focus on Marx's philosophical doctrines
Vox Article on Happiness
History of Socialism
The term was generally used in the 1830s
Did not originate from Marx and Engels, nor did they call themselves socialists in their youth