Marx

Question 1

Summarize Marx

Answer 1

The Communist Manifesto,

Eventually the state and civil society will reunite, erasing the historical distinction between private and public/political eralms; government will simply be the administration of things and the direction of the processes of production.

The state will end when the need for the state ends. Government will turn into administration of things, not the government and people.

Question 2

Nature

Answer 2

Revolutionary,

emancipatory,

practical,

• public school
• public education
• agrarian army [centralize food production]
• throwing all immigrant

radical

Question 3

Method

Answer 3

Manifesto

Radicalism

Critical Theory

HUmanism

Socialism

Technological determinism

Dialectical materialism

• thesis, antithesis, synthesis
• Marx as a dialectical materialism said history is not process of ideas but process of class
• all history is class conflict, history can be understood in material terms

Polemical- praxis-
- change my doing not thinking, revolutionary way to make revolution

Question 4

Function

Answer 4

Individuals- Conscientization [changing consciousness]
- overthrow bourgeoisie, power to proletariat who will own means of production

Society- solidarity

• revolution soc, pol, econ change
• create one class that ends cycles of revolution and contant class struggles

Getting rid of capitalism will get rid of all forms of oppression

Both of these result in emancipation [oraxis]- change in material things changes conciousness

Question 5

Value

Answer 5

Very valuable- help the world through philosophy
- esp. with reference to practical change rather than just talking about change

“Philosophy (idealism) is to science (Marx means what he is doing) what masturbation is to sex.”
- Idealism makes people okay with bad situation