Marxist Theory Flashcards

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Difference between socialism and communism

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Socialists DO NOT ADVOCATE FOR VIOLENCE: MARX DOES (socialists wanted utopian schemes to be realized without violence)
DIFFER FROM SOCIALISTS IN THE APPLICATION OF VIOLENCE
Socialism is more of an economic system: communism IS POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC

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Dialectic:

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Dialectic: creation of Haggle, haggle envisions a process where existing political and economic forces encounter opposing forces (clash between ideas, thesis and antithesis) PRODUCES A NEW SYNTHESIS

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Dialectical Materialism

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Dialectical Materialism: materialism refers to economics here ** CLASHING OF ECONOMIC IDEAS
Haggle: whatever aspect of structures, there is always a dominant institution or element (thesis)

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Marx’s Six Stages of History:

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Marx’s Six Stages of History: primitive society, slave society, feudalism, capitalism, socialism, communism (HISTORY IS ALL ABOUT ACHIEVING PERFECTION AND IT ENDS WITH COMMUNISM AND ACHIEVING UTOPIAN GOALS)

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Labor Theory of Value:

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labor, not the market, sets the value of goods and services

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Iron Law of Wages:

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workers’ wages must be kept at a subsistence levels to maximize profits (negative consequences are overproduction when there is low worker’s wages, alienates worker from his product makes it so that people cannot benefit from their work, produces competition between businesses and states for markets/resources/labor

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Marxist View of Human Nature:

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human beings are essentially good/rational, capitalism is the entity that plants the seed for corruption

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Paris Commune

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volunteer force of armed citizens is formed; the group that seized the municipal government of Paris in the French Revolution and played a leading part in the Reign of Terror until suppressed in 1794. BASED ON COMMUNIST PRINCIPLES

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