Marx Communist Manifesto Flashcards
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Communist Manifesto Overview
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- Marx did most of it, Engels gets some credit
- Four chapters
- Each era is governed by a distinct mode of production
- World is organized by our economic structure
- Worried B has commodified interactions
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CM Beginning
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- Out of feudalism comes the bourgeois
- New era sould be equality, liberty, etc.
- Instead hasbeen more division, poor v. upper middle class
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Economic Rise of Bourgeois
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- Comes from commerce, trade with Asia and US colonies
- New markets create rapid development
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Old Feudalism
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- Based in closed guilds where peasants were artisans
- Craftsmanship was empowering
- Overtaken by manufacturing
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New Manufacturing
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- Overtakes guilds due to efficieny that comes from divison of labour
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Modern Industry
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- Rejigs manufactuing
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Uber Rich
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- Replaces the middle class
- Operate large scale corporations fuelled by labour armies
- New political power
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Political Rise of the Bourgeois
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- B established liberalism to protect material interests
- Self-interest dominates without rule of the stronger
- All are interested in capital
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New Order
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- Flattens, measure of success is protection of property
- Poperty is merged with self-interest
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Bourgeois Main Contribution
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- Population no longer inherits power like in feudalism
- Ability to mobilize self-interst and protect that is most important
- All relations are to that end
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Bourgeois Retaining Power
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- They constantly innovate
- Fuel appetite by creating supply and demand
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Insecuirty and Economic System
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- No stability, measure, or value other than producing capital
- Must break down its creations to fuel the system
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Proletariat
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- Form in relation to capital, labourers live only so long as they work for necessity
- Only cogs in a wheel, no satisfaction unlike H’s slave
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Proletariat Lack of Character
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- Lost the charm of the artisan
- Don’t have the time to pursue creation
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Proletariat and Replacability
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- Know they are easily replaceable, just fill a function
- Only know how to make part of a product
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Proletariat Stuggle
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- As individuals and collective stuggle against bourgeois
- Only focus on work conditions not the overarching exploitation
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Commercial Crises
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- Redirect markets
- One mode of production becomes obsolete so workers lose jobs
- B moves on while P suffers
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Proletariat and Precarity
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- Become aware of it due to growth and fear of displacement
- Solidifies their class motivations, start to form unions
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Bourgeois Greatest Weakness
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- Overproduction and augmentation of capital
- Way of keeping power is greatest weakness
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Modern Industry
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- Collapses as P unites, associate more than work, master and slave inversion
- Creates labour competition for jobs, oversupply of jobs
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Proletariats and Communists
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- Communist interests align with P
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Communists and Property
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- Want to abolish private property, it’s used as a political unit
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Property and Labour
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- Prop is not an extension on labour in modern
- No product in modern industry
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Product and Modern Industry
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- Proletariat has no claim on product
- Capital is the product and belongs to bourgeois
- Alienates artisan from fruit of their labour
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Capitalism Exploitation
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- Exploits workers so they can’t access capital
- Capital should be for all
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Communism
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- Capital for all
- Universal, shares values that transcend boundaries
- Always interested in working class
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Universality of Ideas
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- Universal in the way they’ve been understood
- Ideas are instilled because they serve the interests of those with material power
- How material conditions structure reality and allow dom of few at expense of many
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Call to Action
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- Last section of the CM is a rally cry
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Paris Commune
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- Occupation of Paris by workers, suppressed but was inspired by Marx
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Paris Commune Effects on CM
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- Caused Marx to go back and say that there power needs to totally transform for change
- Can’t keep old structures
