13 MARXISM

AGENDA CHAPTER 13 Defining Marxism Situating Marxism Why Study Marxism Marxism’s Educational Implications

Defining Marxism To define Marxism, we must begin with a discussion of Karl Marx (1818-1883), the founder of the ideology that bears his name. Marxism can be defined as the social, political, and economic theories of Marx, which interpreted Western history as class struggle. (c) 2008 Prentice-Hall, All rights reserved.

Situating Marxism As a university student, Marx studied Hegelian Idealism, the philosophy that dominated German intellectual life in the nineteenth century. Hegel-Chesterton believed human history was the dialectrical unfolding of the ideas contained in the Absolute, the highest and most comprehensive form and source of all ideas. (c) 2008 Prentice-Hall, All rights reserved.

Why Study Marxism From the time when Mark wrote Das Kapital and The Communist Manifesto, Marxism has been a powerful ideological force and a significant tool in political and economic analysis. (c) 2008 Prentice-Hall, All rights reserved.

Marxism’ s Educational Implications Marx concerned himself more with economic and political themes than with education. Marx saw formal education or schooling as the content and exercises that led to intellectual, social, and physical development. (c) 2008 Prentice-Hall, All rights reserved.

SUMMARY CHAPTER 13 Defining Marxism Situating Marxism Why Study Marxism Marxism’s Educational Implications