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    Karl Marx was a 19th century German philosopher who developed the socio-political theory of Marxism. Some key aspects of Marxism are that it views society through the lens of class struggle between the bourgeoisie and proletariat, and believes that the ideas of the ruling class become the dominant ideas of a society. Marx predicted capitalism would lead to wealth being concentrated among fewer people and a proletariat revolution, but this prediction did not fully come to pass.

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    Karl Marx was a 19th century German philosopher who developed the socio-political theory of Marxism. Some key aspects of Marxism are that it views society through the lens of class struggle between the bourgeoisie and proletariat, and believes that the ideas of the ruling class become the dominant ideas of a society. Marx predicted capitalism would lead to wealth being concentrated among fewer people and a proletariat revolution, but this prediction did not fully come to pass.

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    Karl Marx was a 19th century German philosopher who developed the socio-political theory of Marxism. Some key aspects of Marxism are that it views society through the lens of class struggle between the bourgeoisie and proletariat, and believes that the ideas of the ruling class become the dominant ideas of a society. Marx predicted capitalism would lead to wealth being concentrated among fewer people and a proletariat revolution, but this prediction did not fully come to pass.

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    KARL MARX and

    MARXISM
    KARL MARX (1818-1883)
    •Born in May 5, 1818 in Trier, Germany
    •Jewish extraction
    •Studied in the Universities of Bonn and
    Berlin
    •Young Hegelian movement
    •Bruno Bauer
    •University lecturer and journalism
    •Rheinische Zeitung (Rhenish Gazette)
    •Moses Hess
    KARL MARX (1818-1883)
    •Jenny Von Westphalen
    •New York Tribune
    •The Economic and Philosophical Manus
    cripts
    •Friedrich Engels
    •The Holy Family
    •Conditions of Working Class in
    England
    marxism
    •“Communism is the riddle of history
    solved” - Marx

    •“Just as Darwin discovered the law odf


    development of organic nature, so Marx
    discovered the law of development of
    human history” - Engels
    marxism
    •Two Ideas:
    1. Materialism
    “The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the
    ruling ideas: i.e. the class which is the ruling material
    force of society, is at the same time its ruling
    intellectual force.”

    2. Class Struggle
    “The history of all hitherto existing society is the
    history of class struggles.”
    marxism
    •Identity of Social Class
    1. Bourgeosie
    2. Proletariat
    Marx in his own words
    ‘In bourgeois society capital is
    independent and has individuality,
    while the living person is dependent
    and has no individuality’.
    Marx and The Revolution
    • Marx predicted that wealth would belong
    to fewer and fewer people.
    • The workers would eventually realise their
    position and overthrow the bourgeoisie
    • There would be an armed revolution which
    would begin in Britain.
    • It would happen in the very near future.
    marxism
    •Errors:
    The biggest problem with Marxism is
    that the predicted revolution never
    occurred in the form he said it would.
    People are not poorer.
    Wealth is not concentrated in the hands
    of a few rich people.
    Britain hasn’t had a Communist
    revolution yet and is not likely to in the
    near future.
    Marx in his own words
    ‘Men make their own history, but they do
    not make it just as they please; they do not
    make it under circumstances chosen by
    themselves, but under circumstances
    directly found, given and transmitted from
    the past. The tradition of all the dead
    generations weighs like a nightmare on the
    brain of the living.’
    Marx in his own words
    ‘History repeats itself, first as tragedy,
    second as farce.’
    Conclusion
    • Marxism is a political philosophy – your
    views are your own and not required in
    sociology.
    • Marxism is an understanding of the
    nature of social relationships which
    you are expected to evaluate. Recognise
    that it has strengths and weakness as a
    tool of understanding of our culture.
    Economic & philosophic Manuscripts

    1. worker vs. his product


    2. Worker vs. himself
    3. People vs. People

    Marx believed the solution to this problem


    was communism as this would enable the
    fulfilment of "his potentialities as a
    human.”

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