Karl Marx
Automation
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Post-capitalism
Communism
Bourgeoisis
Factory owners in capitalism
"Withering away" of the state
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Business cycle
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Capitalism
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Hagen
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Imperialism
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Planned economy
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Plato
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Russian Revolution
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Socialism
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Surplus value
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Utopian socialists
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"The Communist Manifesto"
Book written by Karl Marx and Frederich Engels that outlined how every society in the world would eventually reach communism
Dialectical
Concept that an idea ("thesis") produces its own opposite ("antithesis") and out of the struggle between the two comes synthesis (a stronger, better idea) which then produces its own antithesis; ∆∆∆∆∆∆∆∆
Materialism
Concept that you look at the economy to know history and that he who controls the resources controls society
Marxism/Marxist
Economic beliefs based on the idea of materialism- he who controls the resources controls society
Lenin
Man of action, led the Russian Revolution (as a result of the Germans), family killed by the Russian Czar, contributed the Weak Link theory, imperialism, and idea of communist party starting communist revolution
Friedrich Engels
Marx's partner in writing the Communist Manifesto
Proletariat
Marx's term for the working class in a capitalist society
Leninist
Marxism as interpreted and applied by Lenin, believe in Weak Link theory, capitalism=imperialism, and that the communist party will lead the revolution
Labor Theory of Value
Now deemed irrelevant; idea that value is equal to the amount of labor it takes to produce or maintain it
Dialectical Materialism
Proves that revolution is inevitable, stolen from Hagen, idea stating that in the feudal class nobles produces merchants and out of that came capitalism, which consists of bourgeoisie and proletariats, out of which produces communism
Karl Marx
Scholar, kicked out of University for being to radical, lived in the slums of London and worked at museum there studying economics, authored "The Communist Manifesto" and "Das Kapital", created the main form of modern communism
"Das Kapital"
Written by Karl Marx over 18 years, explains capitalism and then how it will be destroyed by communism
Weak Link Theory
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Communism
a mutual sharing of that which is possessed in common; a communal life