MARX
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- MARX
- HISTORICAL MATERIALISM
- humans are beings with material needs
- must use the forces of production to meet material needs
- over time forces grow & develop
- rise to a division between two classes the bourgeoisie & the proletariat
- CLASS SOCIETY & EXPLORATION
- primitive communism - earliest stage of human history.
- 3 successive class societies with their own form of exploitation
- ancient society
- feudal society
- capitalist soceity
- CAPITALISM
- surplus value = the profit capitalist makes by selling commodities proletariat produced
- capitalists pay lowest wages possible = immiseration (impoverishment) proletariat
- production = concentrated in ever-larger units
- CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS
- capitalism sows its own seeds of destruction
- polarising classes brings proletariat together in large numbers
- proletariat becomes a class for itself - members are class conscious
- capitalism sows its own seeds of destruction
- IDEOLOGY
- class owns production also owns the mental production (ideas)
- fosters false consciousness in subordinate classes to sustain class inequality
- see through capitalist ideology & become conscious of their position as 'wage slaves'
- ALIENATION
- loss of control over our labour & separation of our true nature
- workers no control over the forces of production
- worker reduced to unskilled, mindless, repetitive, meaningless tasks
- THE STATE, REVOLUTION AND COMMUNISM
- armed bodies of men protect interests of the ruling class
- revolution will overthrow capitalism
- CRITICISMS
- marx's view of class
- simplistic, one-dimensional view of inequality
- simplistic, one-dimensional view of inequality
- economic determinism
- base-superstructure fails to recognise humans have free will & can bring change through their own consciousness
- the 'Two Marxisms'
- humanistic/ critical Marxism
- scientific/ structuralist Marxism
- marx's view of class
- HISTORICAL MATERIALISM
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