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Marx Flashcards

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Hegel’s dialectical triad

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  • reality is a product of our consciousness

- Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis

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Alienation

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-labor becomes alienated from sled when you no longer own/control what is made

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Teleology

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  • The ultimate goal

- Marx it’s communism which is the way society will progress linearly to a predefined end

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Epistemology

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  • Study of how we know
  • Marx’s class consciousness, different classes understand world differently
  • Marx we learn through history and material conditions
  • know because of what you experience
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Onotology

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  • Science of being

- Marx’s is dialectical materialism which is grounded in reality, and conflict played out in societies different classes

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Species Being

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  • Social individual a person is located in society, defined by society and defines society
  • About changing nature
  • Being involved in society to change nature (society, religion, infrastructure)
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Dialectical materialism

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  • German ideology
  • Thesis encounters Antithesis which turns into Synthesis that is progress
  • Have different loops/ purpose for these
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Existence, Consciousness

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  • Consciousness will only be conscious existence
  • Existence of men is their actual life-process
  • Life not determined by consciousness but consciousness is determined by life
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Division of Labor, Alienation

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  • By having to sell your labor puts you at the mercy of employer and creates alienation because you become viewed as just the object you are meant to create
  • Private property, means of production leads to alienation
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Thesis 11

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  • Philosophers have hitherto only interpret the world in various ways
  • Marx says the point isn’t to interpret but to CHANGE it
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Praxis

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  • Dialectic of action (action)

- Objective circumstances of social structure can be connected with someones subjective understanding

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Hegel vs. Feuerbach

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-reality is product of our consciousness, and goal is to reach god
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-humans created god as knowledge of self and if reach true potential no longer need god (about universal love)

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Feuerbach vs. Marx

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  • Feuerbach not materialist enough
  • Marx need to change the world through praxis can’t just want love
  • Theory is only useful if it creates change
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Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis because

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Hegel: to know God
Feuerbach: to know ourselves
Marx: to create social change and shapes how people react to material things

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Base

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-?

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Superstructure

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  • Determined by the sub-structure of basic empirical facts

- ?

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Objectification

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-Worker puts life into creating an object therefore the object owns his life and while making it the object becomes his species being

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Estrangement

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  • Labor as object that exists outside oneself, independently as something alien to you
  • Thus life becomes estranged from self
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Coerced Labor

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  • Forced to work to survive, sell your labor therefore don’t own yourself
  • Mortifies body and mind species being isn’t used for main purpose instead to create estranged objects
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Alienated Labor

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  • Worker to product: labor has become congealed in the object
  • Labor to producing: forced labor a means to satisfy needs, belongs to another
  • Worker to species being: life appears only as means to life, labor turns being into an alien and individual existence
  • Worker to worker: view others only as what they create/occupation
  • Result of private property
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Consciousness

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-?

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Class Struggle

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  • The dialectic process of creating change in society

- Oppressed and oppressor define social relations which are a product of the mode of production

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Mode of Production

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  • Capitalism for Marx which will eventually destroy itself and communism where everyone can pursue their species being will happen
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Proletariate

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  • Individual laborers, factory workers
  • Those who do not own the means of production
  • They must sell their labor to survive
  • The revolutionary class
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Bourgeoisie

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  • Ruling class, where social change and alienation must happen
  • Creates societies image after itself
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Petite Bourgeoisie

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  • Small trades people, business owners have commodities they control the sale of
  • This group shrinks to join proletariate
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Communism

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  • Marx end state after capitalism kills itself
  • Part of Marx teleology which is rather utopian
  • Deprives no man of power to appropriate products, and can pursue their species-being
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Use Value

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  • The utility of a commodity and it’s ability to satisfy wants, can have personal value
  • No value can be put on use-value
  • Exchange value has an equivalence of what something is worth, this can have a price and someone else has to agree on that price
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Necessary Labor

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  • Work that must be done to reproduce the worker

- What a laborer must do to make ends meet/ survive

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Socially necessary labor time

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  • Changes by the mode of production

- Technology makes the time needed to produce something less decreasing the socially necessary labor

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Absolute or Relative Surplus value

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  • Absolute means to increase workers hours and uphold a standard thus creating more surplus value
  • Relative means increasing productivity with time saving procedures and don’t have to pay workers for more hours to create the same surplus value
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Commodity

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  • Something + Labor
  • An external object that through it’s qualities satisfies human needs
  • ?
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Commodity fetishism

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  • Comes from alienation of labor that creates a distorted relationship between individuals and consumption
  • Don’t see the work and people that went into making something
  • Objects have more power then people, become defined by the commodities you have
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Reification

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  • Part of alienated labor act of looking at something as if it were real
  • Loose sight of the labor that creates a commodity it becomes reified
  • When categories become more real than the people described by them
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C-M-C

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  • Laborer, must sell labor as a commodity to earn money to buy the daily commodities needed in life
  • All about creating consumption which means things need use-value
  • Never see the money you worked for again
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M-C-M

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  • Capitalist takes their money and converts it into commodity that can then be sold for money creating a stream of new money because they own the means of production
  • Earning more money because system is driven by exchange-value
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Class consciousness

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-Capital is meant to make us think about our lives and how they are based around material things
-Conflicting classes creates growing proletariate rink, class consciousness that leads to revolution
In itself- workers must realize they share common grievances, without this the division of labor continues
For itself- awareness of the different classes

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