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Liberalism
Classless society (Alexis de Tocqueville)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who argued that democracy is inferior to other forms of government? | Plato |
| Who was the theorist of the early 19th century that argued for a new type of society based entirely on socialist principles? | Henri de Saint-Simon |
| Who made an impassioned speech to France's Constituent Assembly in 1848? | Alexis de Tocqueville |
| Socialism ignores what human virtues? | The highest |
| What undermines the ownership of private property? | Socialism |
| What does Socialism stifle? | The individual |
| Socialism is a new system of what? | Serfdom |
| Democracy aims at equality in what? | Liberty |
| Who argued that workers would be mere cogs in the overbearing machinery of the state under socialism? | Alexis de Tocqueville |
| De Tocqueville's 19th and 20th century debates contrasted between what two forms of government? | Democracy and Socialism |
| Democracy was seen as what? | Freedom |
| Socialism was seen as what? | Confinement |
| What did de Tocqueville become after the 1848 revolution? | A member of the Constituent Assembly in France |
| What did he do after his opposition to Bonaparte's 1851 coup? | Withdrew from politics |
| "Democracy in America" was who's most famous work? | Alexis de Tocqueville |
| After the French Revolution of 1789, the upper class became what? | More privileged and corrupt |
| After the French Revolution of 1789, the lower class burned with what? | Anger and dissatisfaction |
| Which class of people were more easily seduced by socialist ideas? | Lower |
| The socialist state was incompatible with what? | Freedom and competition |
| In 1848, who was overthrown in France? | King Louis-Phillippe |