Karl Marx Flashcards
1
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Human nature
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HN, originally fraternal and altruistic, has been contaminated by capitalism, instilling the ‘false consciousness’ of bourgeois values - revolutionary socialism will repair this
2
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State
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existing liberal bourgeois state is a tool of the capitilist class - it must be destroyed and replaced by a new socialist state - the dictatorship of the prolateriat
3
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Society
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capitilist society is sickeningly, yet fatally, defined by class interests and class conflict - a communist society will be the perfect ‘end of history’
4
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Economy
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capatilism is corrupt, inefficient and ultimatley self-destructive - it should and will be replaced by an economy based on collective ownership
