Heywood on Socialism

Socialism is the collabvorative ideology. Unlike other ideologies, socialism thrives on the idea that humans are social creatures that will collaberate and interact to solve societies problems. There is no individual progress made for the community. As summarized in the second section of the reading, Humans are commraddes, bothers and sisters bound together by the bonds of humanity. Socialist ideas believe in human growth and potential over a lifetime. There is no lmit to what one can do, they side with nurture rather than nature.

The Five main ideas under socialism are Community, Co-operation, Social Class, Equality, and Common Ownership

The ideas about community is that is must be valued, that people need to co-esist and ineract in order to survive. Co-operation's main point is that there needs to be collaberation rather than competition in order for all member of a society to work. Socialists believe that there is a need for social class, but the meaning of social class has been disputed between socialists. Socialists believe that equality is not achieved through belief, they recognize that all people are not created equally, equality is achieved by socialism because it allows all people to achieve to their potential, there is no oppression. Common ownership really sets socialism appart for other ideologies, person property is a way to create wealth and define ones self in other ideologies. But wealth is a from of social separation and creates inequality. Socialism is functioning idea but when applied it has yet to been shown that it works. It is still evolving and growing as we have seen over the past few centuries. So there is room to adapts and accomidate.