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13 Cards in this Set
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Works by Marx |
The Communist Manifesto (1848) Capital (published in three volumes 1867,1885, 1894) |
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Dialectical Materialism |
the material realities (i.e., economic conditions) of social groups serve as a foundational or formational element |
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Capital |
the concentration of wealth in the form ofgoods (i.e., products) or assets (i.e., property) |
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Capitalism |
“An economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state” (“Marxists”) |
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Labor → Profit #1 |
Marx argued that profit (and therefore wealth) iscreated by labor, not by capital or capitalists |
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Labor → Profit #2 |
workers are alienated in several ways from their own labor under the capitalist system |
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Class |
“A group of people sharing common relations to labor and the means of production” |
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Bourgeoisie |
The bourgeoisie “own property and therebycontrol the means of production” (Dobie 87) The bourgeoisie accumulate capital, wealth,and therefore power |
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Proletariat |
proletariat – “the workers controlled by the bourgeoisie and whose labor produces wealth” The proletariat do not own the means of production and must sell the only thing they have, their labor |
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Ideology/False Consciousness |
“cultural conditioning [that] leads the people to accept a system that is unfavorable for them without protest or questioning—that is, to accept it as the logical way of things” |
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False Consciousness |
bourgeois ideology They accept itwithout question because they thinkthat it’s the natural state of things |
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Commodification |
When material wealth conveys status – the transformation of an item into a status symbol Marxists view this process as psychologically damaging |
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Class Consciousness |
“the awareness on the part of a social class oftheir situation and collective interests” The realization that bourgeois ideology is falseconsciousness |
