1. Bell Work Take the text on the back table Read and annotate
Answer these questions below as a table on the white board:
What is the main idea of the passage?
When and where do you think this was written?

2. Objectives
I will be able to use the APPARTS method when reading documents I will be able to describe the Marxist theory of history

3. Karl Marx
German - Communist Manifesto – Friedrick Engels

4. apparts
Author – describe who it is Place and time – what is going on at this time Prior knowledge – what do you know already Audience – who was this for? Reason – why was it made? The main idea Significance – why is this important?

5. Marxism
Theory of history: - Society progresses through class struggle - The bourgeoisie vs. the proletariat

6. Marxism Six Stages of History Identify which stage it is
Identify the characteristics of the stage
Describe how it functions within society
Explain how it ends
Use white board to outline your thoughts

7. Stage 1: Primitive Communism
Shared property
Hunting and Gathering
Proto Democracy
Ends with development of private property

8. Stage 2: Slave Society Classes State-ism Agriculture
Democracy and Authoritarianism
Private Property
Ends when it exhausts itself

9. Stage 3: Feudalism Aristocracy Theocracy Hereditary Classes
Nation-State
Ends with social revolution

10. Stage 4: Capitalism Market Economy Private Property
Parliamentary democracy
Wages
Warfare
Financial Institutions
Monopolistic tendencies
Ends when the working class finds it “consciousness” and rises against the bourgeoisie

11. Stage 5: Socialism Decentralized planned economy Common Property
Council Democracy
Labor Vouchers
Ends when capitalism is completely destroyed

12. Statelessness Classlessness Property-lessness History can begin!
Stage 6: Communism
Statelessness
Classlessness
Property-lessness
History can begin!

13. Homework
Directions: Answer the following questions with at least FIVE SENTENCES per answer. 1) Do you think this theory is realistic? Why or why not? 2) What stage is America in? Do you think it will ‘progress’ to the next stage? Why or why not?