Marx

Question 1

Hegel’s ideas

Answer 1

ideas, values and meanings are driving sources of history

Question 2

What are classes based on?

Answer 2

Access to resources

Question 3

Religion for Marx

Answer 3

Cry of the oppressed in society

Question 4

Base

Answer 4

Economic realm

Question 5

Pure social materialism

Answer 5

Feuerbach - man is what he eats

Question 6

Materialist conception of history

Answer 6

Human being with ideas in circumstances he doesn’t choose

Question 7

Change in history because of

Answer 7

change in mode of production

Question 8

New stage (new what? 3)

Answer 8

Mode of production
Division of labour
Ownership

Question 9

5 Stages

Answer 9

Primitive communalism
Ancient slave society
Feudal societies 
Bourgeois society 
Socialist + communist societies

Question 10

What is extracted from labourer that constitutes profit

Answer 10

Surplus value

Question 11

5 crisis of capitalism

Answer 11

Overproduction
Pauperisation
Underconsumption
Rescue army of the unemployed

Question 12

What’s a commodity

Answer 12

Something with a use-value, serves human need or want

Question 13

Exchange value

Answer 13

Ratio in which one good exchanges for another

Question 14

2 views of revolution

Answer 14

Structural view

Insurrection

Question 15

Structural view

Answer 15

Collapse of capitalism

Question 16

Insurrection

Answer 16

agency, concentration of workers in industry

≠false consciousness

Question 17

4 different kinds of alienation

Answer 17

From products you make
From actual process of production
From self
From your species and mankind

Question 18

Asiatic mode of production

Answer 18

State owns everything

No social classes

Question 19

Bakunin

Answer 19

Against dictatorship of the proletariat

Question 20

4 Presuppositions to Marx’s model

Answer 20

He follows Adam Smith’s “labour makes value”
Capitalism is based on exploitation
Labour is on the market as a commodity
State of primitive accumulation allowed this

Question 21

changing organic composition of capitalism

Answer 21

Change between money spent on wages and inventions

Question 22

18th Bruhmer

Answer 22

• It seems as though a man comes to power; not a class
• Passage: can a state float in free air (IN EXAM)
  • no a state cannot float in free air
  • it must represent a base, class needs or interests in some way or another
  • it must have a base

Question 23

how can louis napoleon get there?

Answer 23

• relatively underdeveloped capitalism, high finance in paris but very large peasantry
• after 1848 the bourgeoisie is scared
• bourgeoisie is split big ≠ between landlords and financial capitalism
• the bourgeoisie needs a strong authoritarian state

Question 24

Marx on Peasants

Answer 24

• he says peasant are like potatoes in a bag, don’t communicate (not mash)
• they don’t trust eachother
• huge difference between peasant and workers in large factories (who have class consciousness)