Thinkers and their Ideas GapFill

Socialism has six main thinkers who have contributed to the development of the ideology.

 Karl MarxAnthony CroslandAnthony GiddensBeatrice Webb is associated with revolutionary socialism and is particularly known for the idea that history is that of class conflict, as well as for the notion of historical materialism. These ideas were developed alongside   Friedrich EngelsAnthony CroslandAnthony GiddensBeatrice Webb.

 Beatrice WebbAnthony GiddensKarl MarxAnthony Crosland is associated with the Third Way and advocated that state intervention was inefficient while the free market was efficient.

 Anthony GiddensBeatrice WebbAnthony CroslandKarl Marx is associated with evolutionary socialism (which links her to the   Third Waycommunismrevisionismsocial democracy branch), and is particularly known for the idea of the 'inevitability of gradualness'.

 Anthony CroslandRosa LuxemburgBeatrice WebbAnthony Giddens is associated with revolutionary socialism and believed that capitalism could never be compatible with socialism and so rejected evolutionary socialism.

 Anthony GiddensBeatrice WebbAnthony CroslandKarl Marx is associated with the Third Way and considered that class was becoming less significant and revolution no longer likely due to the development of democracy.