Karl Marx ID's

The beggining of a government public based educations:

* Gov permitted rules to protect the workers *They made child labor illegal *Limited hours worked by women in mines and stuff *require education for students. *less people working----> higher wages!!

Pierre Proudhon what is property? property is theft

A slogan coined by French anarchist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon in his 1840 book What is Property? Or, an Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government.

Determinism

A system that you know the outcome of. It cannot be changed. all events, including human action, are ultimately determined by causes external to the will.

"A spectre is haunting Europe- the spectre of communism" "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle"

All of history can be explored through class struggle and economics.

The condition of the working class in England (1841)

An 1845 book by the German philosopher Friedrich Engels, a study of the industrial working class in Victorian England

sythesis

Another thesis. Grows within itself another antithesis.

Dialectical materialism

Economics of a place change due to violent conflict of opposites.

bourgeoisie

Factory owners/ middle class folk the capitalist class who own most of society's wealth and means of production.

Friedrich Engels

German philosopher, social scientist, journalist, and businessman. He founded Marxist theory together with Karl Marx.

Georg Hegel

His theory was the dialectic. said he knew how history changed and worked.

Communist Manifesto(1848)

Marx and Engels book an attempt to explain the goals of Communism, specific is characterized by class conflict between the bourgeoisie and proletariat. capitalism is inherently unstable. They argue that the elimination of social classes cannot come about through reforms or changes in government. Rather, a revolution will be required.

what happens as the dialect proceeds?

Over time the antithesis continues to grow and then they fight and a synthesis (other thesis) follows. his process is a continuous cycle.

Dialectic

Part of this was (thesis, antithesis, synthesis) The theory of change through the violent conflict of opposites.

"Religion is the opium(drug) of the people"

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. At the time opium was seen as a painkiller. I interpret this as Marx seeing religion as the thing the proletariat turns to to ease the pain of their everyday struggles. And like religion, painkillers do not stop a disease, they only ease the pain. The quotation originates from the introduction of Marx's work A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right, which he started in 1843 but which was not published until after his death.

Surplus value

The big key to the reason why Marx said Capitalism was going to fall. The cost of a person is the wage it takes to keep the person alive therefore people must work more house due to competition and because those extra hours = the profit of the capitalists. Reason for crash: due to competition/ fast/ efficiancy people will be replacing workers with machines which means less money because the money came from exploiting the workers. Therefore, capitalism collapses.

Das Kapital

The greatest work by Karl Marx on economics; the title is German for "capital." It describes the capitalist system in highly critical terms and predicts its defeat by socialism.

"The expropriators will be expropriated"

The people who were stealing will now be stolen from.

Antithesis

The seeds of destruction of the thesis. The virus. You cannot have a thesis without an antithesis.

Withering away of the state Dictatorship of the proletariat

This will happen when we only have one class.

Proletariat

Workers in factories. the lower or working class. (in Marxist theory) the class of wage-earners, esp industrial workers, in a capitalist society, whose only possession of significant material value is their labour.

Imperialism

a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy(negotiation) or military force. by forceee

Communism

a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs. advocated the elimination of private property so that all goods are owned in common for all people to use.

From each according to his ablilites, to each according to his needs

a slogan that Karl Marx made popular in his writing Critique of the Gotha program, published in 1875.

Feudalism

a social system existing in medieval Europe in which people worked and fought for nobles who gave them protection and land in return..

capitalism

an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.(Smith's idea)

Bullionism

an economic theory that defines wealth by the amount of precious metals owned. Bullionism is an early or primitive form of mercantilism.

Thesis

any condition to start with

"workers of the world unite! you have nothing to loose but your chains"

he said fight, be violent, take away the factories from the bourgeoisie. There's nothing to loose.

Materialism

preoccupation with or emphasis on material objects, comforts, and considerations, with a disinterest in spiritual, intellectual, or cultural values. things that count are materialistic (things we can touch). Only things that are real.

Labor theory of value (only things that capitalists and communists agree on)

somethings natural price costs the amount it takes to make it

mercantilism

the economic theory that trade generates wealth and is stimulated by the accumulation of profitable balances, which a government should encourage by means of protectionism.

Opportunism

the taking of opportunities as and when they arise, regardless of planning or principle. Slows down the revolution. Don't do it!

karl marx

was a philosopher and economist famous for his ideas about capitalism and communism. n conjunction with Friedrich Engels, published "The Communist Manifesto" in 1848; later in his life, he wrote "Das Kapital," which discussed the labor theory of value.

Economic theory of history

whatever determines the economy determines everything else in the society.