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Screenplay: For our screenplay we will create a type info show. We will focus on the major topics of socialism and its major contributors/ founders such as Karl Marx. The major topics include how socialsm affected people in the 18th and 19th centuries mostly in Europe, and also how socialism carries over into the modern world which we live in today.

We'll have our comments on socialism chich will explain A. What is socialism B. Its role in society/ pros/ cons C. Its impacts on life in the 18th and 19th centuries D. How it is used in our modern world today

Also we will keep it intersting and have many pictures, cool camera angles, and possibly music. We will also have some sort of decorations and whigs or something like that.

Closing scene- credits/ thank you for watching and we hope that you enjoyed the show and have a better understanding of Socialism.

It should be under 10 minutes.

Guys feel free to change anything or add things


 * Narrator 1-** To talk about socialism we should first give you a clear definition which is a broad set of economic theories of social organization advocating public or state ownership and administration of the means of mass production and distribution of goods, and a society characterized by equality for all individuals. The most important goal of socialism is to create an equal society where everyone can share in the wealth. Socialism also removes the incentives to act against the common good. It also motivates others to actively serve it. Work is transformed into a desirable activity performed for its own sake and people feel part of society rather than alienated from it. Socialism also enables anyone no matter what to be and feel a part of society. What socialism limits though is individual freedom, and class struggles.


 * Narrator 2**- Karl Marx, others

One reason why the ideas of socialism started in the 19th century in europe was because many workers were being exploited. Workers believed that wealth is created by the working classes, Socialists were clearly for the working classes. Socialists ideals were equality, cooperation, democracy, and shared prosperity. Socialism had a storng base and originated in France, Germany and England. Socialists at the time were oppossed to capitalistic gov't and wealth among the upper class of society that controls capital, creates an uequal society, and does not provide equal opportunities for everyone in society. To me I think that socialists had a great idea as long as it did not go way overboard almost becoming radical like communism today. socialists advocated want universal suffrage or voting for everyone, which leads into democratic socialism which is an modern day international movement for freedom,social justice, and solidarity. During the 19th Century there were many "utopian socialists" who may have laid the foundations such as Robert Owens or Henri De Saint, but whos ideas quickly faded away.
 * Narrator 3-** effects on 19th century, and modern world

In our modern society you may not think Socialism is very present in our world today; but Some Socialist idealogies are still being used today include labor unions where workers come together to protect their working conditions, others include programs such as food stamps,and finacial aid in schools. Lastly, see President Obama as a good socialist because he is creating many reforms that can help people in this tough economy.

Research: Socialism: **http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism**
 * Socialism is an ideology whose defining condition is ownership of the means of production by the government or by a collective.

http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/marx.html
 * Democratic socialism is an international movement for freedom, social justice, and solidarity. Its goal is to achieve a peaceful world where these basic values can be enhanced and where each individual can live a meaningful life with the full development of his or her personality and talents, and with the guarantee of human and civil rights in a democratic framework of society // . //


 * Karl Marx- a major contributor to the socialist movement
 * major work on political economy made slow progress.


 * By 1857 he had produced a gigantic 800 page manuscript on capital, landed property, wage labor, the state, foreign trade and the world market. The Grundisse (or //Outlines//) was not published until 1941.

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/hum_303/socialism.html
 * In the early 1860s he broke off his work to compose three large volumes, Theories of Surplus Value, which discussed the theoreticians of political economy, particularly Adam Smith and David ricardo. It was not until 1867 that Marx was able to publish the first results of his work in volume 1 of Capital, a work which analyzed the capitalist process of production. In //Capital//, Marx elaborated his version of the labor theory value and his conception of surplus value and exploitation which would ultimately lead to a falling rate of profit in the collapse of industrial capitalism. Volumes II and III were finished during the 1860s but Marx worked on the manuscripts for the rest of his life and they were published posthumously by Engels.
 * Marx was before all else a revolutionist. His real mission in life was to contribute, in one way or another, to the overthrow of capitalist society and of the state institutions which it had brought into being, to contribute to the liberation of the modern proletariat, which he was the first to make conscious of its own position and its needs, conscious of the conditions of its emancipation

roots of modern socialism lie in our period, in France, Germany and England during the period of the industrial revolution.


 * generally socialists advocate a democratically controlled economy run for the benefit of all


 * Their ideals were equality, cooperation, democracy, and shared prosperity.


 * Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865), though more properly considered an anarchist, articulated a hostility toward capitalists that was echoed in the writings of many socialists.
 * His slogan "property is theft" was a handy, if inflammatory, summation of the labor theory of value, and much influenced popular socialism among the working classes.


 * like the majority of socialists and Communists, he was not strictly opposed to all private property: one should be free to own one's own home and domestic goods, for instance.


 * What he objected to was property used to extract wealth from the labor of others: factories, mines, railroads, etc.

> Socialism was originally based in the working class and has generally been opposed to [|capitalism], which is based on private ownership and a [|free-market economy]. Socialists have advocated [|nationalization] (government ownership and control) of natural resources, basic industries, banking and credit institutions, and public utilities. Although the ultimate aim of early socialists was a communist or classless society (//see// [|Communism]), later socialists have increasingly concentrated on social reforms within capitalism. > * http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/hum_303/socialism.html
 * One of the features of the Enlightenment was the exaltation of property rights to the status of a bulwark of liberty by philosophers such as John Locke
 * Power had always been accompanied by property in 19th century Europe
 * The industrializtion of Europe led to the irrelevance of aristocracy
 * The term socialism was thought to be a very exceedingly weak term when first being used to talk about a wide variety of political and economic beliefs
 * It was believed that property was to be shared by the common and not for the wealthy to sell to the common people
 * The thought of the rich owning most of the land was highly rejected