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QUIZ pp. 629-633 1.Please complete the quote – “Working men of all countries ___________ !” 2.Where is this quote taken from? 3.Who were the authors of this? 4.What German idealist philosopher theorized the idea of the DIALECTIC? 5.Who were the two groups engaged in THE CLASS STRUGGLE according communism? 6.What was the INTERNATIONAL WORKING MEN’S ASSOCIATION /THE 1 ST INTERNATIONALE?
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QUIZ ANSWERS 1.UNITE 2.COMMUNIST MANIFESTO 3.KARL MARX & FRIEDRICH ENGELS 4.HEGEL 5.BOURGEOISIE = OWNERS PROLETARIAT = WORKERS 6. UMBRELLA ORGANIZATION OF WORKING CLASS GROUPS
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INDUSTRIALIZATION ON THE CONTINENT Key industrial development the growth of the RR’s Expansion of markets Elimination of barriers to trade Before 1870 workers not well organized Factory owners have all the power After 1870 workers organize socialist parties & organize socialist trade unions
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KARL MARX 1.Born into prosperous middle class family in Germany 2.Earns PhD in philosophy 3.Denied position as prof becomes journalist/editor 4.Forced to move to Paris 5.1848 Marx and Engels publish THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO 6.Failure of Revs of 1848 leads Marx to move to England 7.Spends most of his adult life in England writing DAS KAPITAL
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THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO 1.FIRST AND MOST BASIC STATEMENT OF COMMUNIST PHILOSOPHY 2.ADVOCATES WORKERS REVOLUTION
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MARXISM = COMMUNISM = A TYPE OF SOCIALISM 1.FRENCH POLITICAL THOUGHT – REVOLUTION 2.GERMAN PHILOSOPHY – IDEALISM/HEGEL 3.BRITISH POLITICAL ECONOMY - ECONOMICS
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HEGEL = THE DIALECTIC 1.THE THESIS 2.ANTITHESIS 3.SYNTHESIS Hegel said changes in history are due to clashing between antagonistic ideas Marx said yes and no clashes yes/ideas no clashes between social classes/material conditions = DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM
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Hegel’s Dialectic and Marx’s Dialectical Materialism
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THE CLASS STRUGGLE 1.PROLETARIAT = the workers 2.BOURGEOISIE = the owners These two classes are naturally/unavoidably antagonistic Out of the class struggle will come “THE WORKER’S REVOLUTION” = THE COMMUNIST REVOLUTION
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PHASES OF MARXISM/COMMUNISM 1.Industrialization 2.Rich get richer/poor get poorer 3.worker’s revolution 4.The Dictatorship of the Proletariat = workers take control and reorganize the means of production 5.Private property and profits are eliminated communism is created 6.The state withers away the worker’s paradise is born = a classless society
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THE INTERNATIONAL WORKING MEN’S ASSOCIATION 1.In 1864 Marx helps to organize “the First Internationale” 2.Umbrella group for working class interests 3.Dominated by Karl Marx
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