Communism Flashcards
Principles of Marxist-Communism
Commodity Fetishism within Capitalism Egalitarianism Anti-liberal Anti-capitalism Materialist Revolutionary International Class Struggle Exploitation of the worker Fatalism Base & Superstructure Means of productionin the hands of the workers
Karl Marx
1818-1883 Father of Communism Worked with Engels Founder of Communistn League Wrote on class struggle and structure as well as false consciousness Influenced by Hegelian Dialectics
Friedrich Engels
1820-1895
Friend of Marx
Factory owner
Theorised exploitation of the worker in the capitalist system
Theodore Adorno
1903-1969
Neo-marxist
Frankfurt School
Focused on the superstructure of the capitalist system, and how culture is created by media and the capitalists in the media
Antonio Gramsci
1891-1937 Italian Communist Party leader Neo-marxist Theorises on ideological hegemony within capitalist systems Died in prison
Historical materialism
Primitive Society => Slave society (slave vs master) => Feudalism (serf vs lord) => capitalist society (proletariat vs bourgoisie) => dictatorship of the proletariat => classless society
Economic Theory
C1 - M – C2
Worker sells labour to capitalist in exchange for money in exchange for another commodity
M1 - C – M2
Capitalist has money buys labour and uses it to make more money
Liberal critique
Lack of individualism
Success of capitalism
Eco critique
Anthropocentric
Fem critique
Doesn’t analyse sufficently effect on women
Soc Dem Critique
Too radical
CRT crit
Not intersectional, races are affected differently
General issues
Issues about interpretatons of marxist writings
Classes in slave society
Slave vs master
Class structure in feudal society
Serf vs Lord
Class structure in capitalist society
Proletariat vs Bourgeoisie
How does Gramsci separate the superstructure
State
Civil society
Who theorised the State Apparatuses
Theodore Althusser
What is RSA
Repressive State Apparatus
Unified
Functions via repression and violence
What an ISA
Ideological State Apparatus
Diverse and plural
Propagate range of ideologies
Educational ISA, Family ISA, Religious ISA, Legal ISA, Political ISA
What does a class need to hold power?
Hegemony over and in the ISA
Marxist ideas about the state
Enforces bourgeios ideology
Repressive
Maintains capitalism
