Marxism Flashcards
Whose ideas is Marxism based on ?
Marx and Engels
What are the key socialist principle of Marxism ?
Faternity , solidarity and equality
What is equality incompatible with ?
With capitalism
What does capitalism renforce ?
Selfishness and competition
What will capitalism push into workers
False class consciousness
What does capitalism cause to workers ?
Oppression, exploitation and alienation of workers
What will oppression and alienation of capitalism lead to ?
Class war
In society working class are not class consciousness but overtime people will talk to one another understand position so what will this create ?
Class consciousness
Gaining class consciousness
What will workers do once they gain consciousness?
- remove capitalism
- establish socialism
- state will wither away
State will move through different stages and eventually reach where ?
Communism
What did Marxism refer communism as ?
Historical materialism
What are the key ideas of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels ?
- the centrality of social class
- humans as social beings
What is the points of the centrality of social class ?
- ideas of historical materialism
- dialect change
- revolutionary class consciousness
What is humans as social beings ?
How nature is socially determined and how true common humanity can be expressed under communism
What do both Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels provide for their perspective ?
Provide reinterpretation of history and a revolutionary model of a utopian society
Where does class struggle arise from according to Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels ?
From property ownership
What does Capitalism come with according to Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels ?
Crisis and recession
Who will crisis and recession of capitalist benifit ?
Only a tiny minority of the ruling class
What will vast of individuals form ? And what will they do and achieve ? According to Karl Marx and Engels
Form the proletariat who will wake up to their exploitation and achieve false consciousness
When proletariat overthrow capitalism what will happen ?
Dictatorship of the proletirat
After a period of transition what will happen according to Marx and Engels ?
State will wither away and stateless communist society will emerge
A stateless communist society will emerge based on what according to Karl Marx and Engels ?
Based on common ownership
Who was heavily influenced by Marx and Engels ?
Rosa Luxembourg
What did Luxembourg disagree with Marx with
- historical materialism
Why did Rosa Luxembourg disagree with historical materialism?
Says less ecomically developed societies could have a communist revolution and did not need to wait until capitalism has reached final stage
What socialism was Marx , Engels and Rosa Luxembourg?
Revolutionary socialism
What is revolutionary socialism?
Abolish capitalist economy, state and society and replace it wil communism based on collectivism
