Karl Marx: Capitalism & Conflict
Class-In-Itself
-At this stage, the labourers still form an incoherent mess scattered over the whole country, & broken up by their mutual competition.
Communism
-Collective ownership of the society's means of production & we all benefit evenly *We are NOT by nature greedy -> corruption of human nature by capitalism
Socialism
-Transformation where the proletariat gives up their dictatorship of the proletariat (withering away of the state)
Class Consciousness
-Worker's realize "it's not me, it's us." We are a social class & we oppose the other class therefore we must fight them - pursue their own economic interest - formed combinations/clubbed together - found permanent associations to make provision beforehand for occasional revolts (total revolution)
False Consciousness
-Workers didn't realize they were proletariat -Rather than attacking the bourgeoise, they attacked the machines & broke them
Capitalist Relations of Production
1. Bourgeosie = business owners *ownership and control of the means . of production ( . ) 2. Proletariat= working class; only owns ability to work * survives by selling their labor to the . bourgeosie "The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoise." (Marx & Engels)
Historical Materialism
Changes within a society's mode of production ultimately will transform society as a whole; these changes which drive history will most often be enacted as the outcomes of class conflict, as one class wins out over another and becomes dominant
Manifesto of Communist Party
"The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles." -History is moved by social class
Materialism
"The ideas of the ruling class are every epoch the ruling ideas..." *STUDY THIS QUOTE CAREFULLY..LOOK @ POWERPOINT!* -We get our ideas of the capitalist society from the ruling class
Total Revolution
"What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers." 1. Proletariat must make sure all bourgeoise are dead 2. Redistribute property within society
Who was Marx's writing partner?
Engles
Would Marx consider himself a Marxist?
No
Mode of Production (Base)
Relations of Production Dominant Class ( ) Subcordinate Class -Forces of Production= means of production with labor applied to them -Means of production= raw materials such as coal, water, tools, and metal ** Marx believed that everything in MOP determined Social Structure, society did the rest
Marx's Model of Society (Superstructure)
Superstructure ----------------- Ideas (Law, Religion, Science, etc.) Social Institutions (State, family, etc.)
Federal Society
^ / monarch \ / nobles . \ / knights | vassles \ /merchants | farmers | craftsmen\ / . peasants | serfs \ -Serfs live on the lord's land & farmed the land as well as paid the rent to their lord. ->had to pay tax to use lord's stuff -Bourgeoise came from the merchant class -> everyone else fell into the ranks of . proletariat *Read Manifesto and understand what Marx & Engles are saying
Relations to Production
made up of social classes Dominant Class= power Subcordinate Class= no power
How was Marxist ___ ( not sure ab the other part of question)
trade unions/ political parties
