{"id":5394,"date":"2026-06-12T10:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T10:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/a-brief-history-of-socialism-a-z-of-isms-episode-19-bbc-ideas\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T10:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T10:53:07","slug":"a-brief-history-of-socialism-a-z-of-isms-episode-19-bbc-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/a-brief-history-of-socialism-a-z-of-isms-episode-19-bbc-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"A brief history of socialism | A-Z of ISMs Episode 19 &#8211; BBC Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z_TTYd6yIYI?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>What exactly is socialism? Stephen Bush, political editor at the New Statesman, shares his view on the origins, philosophy, meaning and future of socialism.<\/p>\n<p>Feminism, Darwinism, capitalism, socialism, existentialism&#8230; Find the story behind some of the world&#8217;s most important ideas &#8211; or isms (plus a few fun ones) in our A-Z of ISMs playlist: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLMrFM-P68Wh7o_LwfB8RxfnMMpPwFI83K<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to BBC Ideas \ud83d\udc49 https:\/\/bbc.in\/2F6ipav<br \/>\nThis video was made by Somethin\u2019 Else. <\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Do you have a curious mind? You\u2019re in the right place.<\/p>\n<p>Our aim on BBC Ideas is to feed your curiosity, to open your mind to new perspectives, and to leave you that little bit smarter.  <\/p>\n<p>So dive in. Let us know what you think. And make sure to subscribe!  \ud83d\udc49https:\/\/bbc.in\/2F6ipav<\/p>\n<p>Visit our website to see all of our videos: https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/ideas<br \/>\nAnd follow BBC Ideas on Twitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/bbcideas<\/p>\n<p>#Socialism #Politics #bbcideas<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=z_TTYd6yIYI\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What exactly is socialism? Stephen Bush, political editor at the New Statesman, shares his view on the origins, philosophy, meaning and future of socialism. Feminism, Darwinism, capitalism, socialism, existentialism&#8230; Find the story behind some of the world&#8217;s most important ideas &#8211; or isms (plus a few fun ones) in our A-Z of ISMs playlist: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLMrFM-P68Wh7o_LwfB8RxfnMMpPwFI83K [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4155150508,"featured_media":5395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10585,143,15,2041,2042,2044,495,10573,10575,10577,10579,2043,10581,10571,10588,10574,10586,10589,10587,10584,10580,10578,10576,10583,10582,10572],"class_list":["post-5394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-a-z-of-isms","tag-animation","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-ideas","tag-bbcideas","tag-curious-minds","tag-explainer","tag-history-of-socialism","tag-how-does-socialism-work","tag-how-socialism-work","tag-karl-marx","tag-short-films","tag-social-democracy","tag-socialism","tag-socialism-debate","tag-socialism-explained","tag-socialism-vs-capitalism","tag-socialism-vs-capitalism-debate","tag-socialism-vs-communism","tag-the-problem-with-socialist-ideals","tag-the-third-way","tag-theory-of-socialism","tag-types-of-socialism","tag-what-do-modern-socialists-want","tag-what-is-social-democracy","tag-what-is-socialism","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4155150508"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}