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MARXISM Ronald F. White, Ph.D. Professor of Philosopher
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Introduction Idealism-Materialism –Ideas –Matter Nature and Significance of Work Collectivism-Individualism Human History –Determinism –Indeterminism –Progressivism Social Classes Politics-Economics
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Idealism v. Realism Idealism –Plato –Christianity –Hegel Dialectical Idealism –Thesis, Antithesis, Progress Realism –Thrasymachus –Machiavelli –Thomas Hobbes
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The Philosophy of Work Plato: Producers, Military, Leaders –Philosophy as Leisure Aristotle –Intellectual Work –Political Work –Craft Work Technology and Work
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Collectivism V. Individualism Collectivism –Plato –Hegel- Individualism –Hobbes –John Locke –Adam Smith –F.A. Hayek
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Human History
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Social Classes
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The Relationship Between Politics and Economics
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Worldly Philosophers Adam Smith Marx
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Adam Smith Private Property (John Locke) Rationality Atomic Self Interest Problem of Scarcity Competition Market Capitalism –Buyers and Sellers –Property and Persons –Supply and Demand –Value –Invisible Hand
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MARXISM Historicism Materialism Dialectic –Dialectical Idealism –Dialectical Materialism Superstructure v. substructure Capital Law of Surplus Value Class Struggle –Owners of means of production v. workers Alienation of Labor Revolution
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