Marxism Quiz Flashcards
An expression which derives from the means of production and the relations of production…
Mode of production
Eight: intended to distinguish between the ideas of Marx and Engels and those of “Utopian socialists”…
Scientific socialism
The theory of historical development…
Dialectical materialism
A temporary phrase, following immediately from the revolution, also known by Marx and Engels as “socialism”…
Dictatorship of the proletariat
Wages which are just sufficient to ensure survival…
Subsistence wages
The profit derived by the capitalists from the workers labour
Surplus value
The relentless pursuit of more profit, bigger markets, exploitation of resources et cetera…
Capital accumulation
The process by which the powers of government disappear as socialism gives way to communism…
Withering away of the state.
The realisation, on the part of the proletariat, of their common experience (i.e. exploitation)…
Class consciousness
The estrangement of workers from their work, other workers, the production of the Labour and from themselves
Alienation
The way in which base and superstructure interact
Definition of base
Definition of superstructure
The relationship between them
Dominant values
That superstructure can also influence business
Exemplar: base is the socio-/economic basis of society, which determines superstructure, i.e., the laws, culture, politics of society. Plus the dominant values in any people are those of its ruling class (e.g. under capitalism these are capitalist values). Elements of the superstructure (e.g. revolutionary ideas) can also influence the base.
The process by which capitalism lurches from one crisis to another
Capital accumulation Subsistence wages Overproduction Crisis Revolution Exemplar, The drive to accumulate capital and to compete with other capitalists, together with the payment of subsistence wages leads to overproduction, bankruptcies, unemployment et cetera. Each successive crisis is deeper and longer than before, eventually leading to the revolutionary overthrow the ruling class.
List the seven historical Epochs as identified by Marx
Primitive communism Asiatic Classical Feudal Capitalist Socialist Communist
What, according to Marx and Engels, what’s the best example of the dictatorship of the proletariat, in their lifetime?
The Paris commune, 1871
“The Free development of each is the…”
Condition for the free development of all
