"Socialism is primarily concerned with equality, not liberty." Discuss. Socialism is an ideology that covers many diverse and divergent ideas and theories. It is therefore very difficult to define it as one ideology in particular. This is an important point because the question is a definitive statement about what socialism is. In fact, it is well summed up by Anthony Wright who wrote "There is no shortage of available definitions of what socialism is, but …
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…incorporated into and fulfilled by socialism" Further to this, the writings of Crosland and Tawney show us that equality and liberty are sometimes actually perceived to be the same socialist end. Bibliography A. Wright, Socialisms: Theories and Practices, (Oxford University Press, 1986) R.N. Berki, Socialism, (J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd., London, 1975) C. A. R. Crosland, The Future of Socialism, (Jonathan Cape, 1963) F. Engels, Anti-Duhring; pt 1 ch X K. Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program