How is existing society with its competition, evil, etc. to be transformed into the socialist society ?
– Marxists have been the most uncompromising and dogmatic; because of their claim to scientific analysis, they have been very rigid about the processes, stages and means for effecting the transformation. Thus, many of them have insisted that violent revolution and the destruction of capitalism are prerequisites for creating socialism and communism. – moderate Socialists and Christian Socialists believed that socialism can be achieved by gradual, evolutionary transformation and that power can be achieved by peaceful, political action. – Utopian Socialists also see socialism being achieved in a gradual, evolutionary fashion; as a larger and large proportion of the population join cooperatives, society will evolve into socialism. Determinism in Marxism • human nature is determined by the environment exclusively; • wealth and power are determined by the relationship to the means of production (i.e., ownership determines who has power and wealth); – Marx rejected Mill s separation of produc
