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Karl Marx: The Communist Manifesto - Coggle Diagram
Karl Marx: The Communist Manifesto
Bourgeois Freedom
freedom to trade, sell and buy property
Ideology
false universals
Bourgeois vs. le homme
Bourgeois
: owner of the means of production. Similar to the type of person Kant saw as a citizen / independent
le homme
: Marx criticized the "Le Homme" of the French revolution as being the **bourgeoise, and not man in general
manifesto
arguing that capitalism would inevitably self-destruct, to be replaced by socialism and ultimately communism.
individualism
is the ethos which emphasizes the autonomy of the individual as against the community or social group.
species - being
Marx believes people are species-beings; everything we do determines the condition of everyone else's freedom
history
Marx sees the historical process as proceeding through a series of modes of production, characterized by (more or less explicit) class struggle, and driving humankind towards communism
class conflict
is between the Bourgeois and the Proletariat
the
superstructure
is about how upper classes keep their power; an apparatus to protect and broad cast the power of the ruling class
mode of production
determines how a society procures its reads for sustaining life
who owns what and who gets what
part of Mode of production is the means of production; the tools, equipment, capital, etc necessary to produce goods
means of production
necessary to produce goods
ruling class
are the capitalist social class who own the means of production and by extension determine and establish the dominant ideology of society by way of culture hegemony
feudalism
the power of the ruling class
bourgeois capitalism
the mode of production is bourgeois capitalism
a system /
mode of production
that uses
free wage labour (not slaves)
which produces
commodities
sold at
market
The capitalists (owners of means of production)
invest
in businesses, hiring wage labourers, selling their commodites at market for profit, and
reinvesting profit
as capital
Bourgeoisie
the capitalist class, the owners of means of production
proletariat
you have to sell something to survive in capitalist society, many people only have their labour to sell
loss of access to land = in some ways, proles are worse off than sefs / peasants without means of self-sufficiency
capital
buying in order to sell at a higher point
labor
proletariat
commodity
an external object, a thing which through its qualities satisfies human needs of whatever kind
division of labour
the way that different tasks are apportioned to different people in a given society
exploitation
capitalists squeeze out value from workers without paying them as much as their labour is actually worth
french revolution
alienation
the process whereby the worker is made to feel foreign to the products of his/her own labor
Base-superstructure
the economy is fundamental, and the state / politics arise from it
classes
ruling class and working class
contradiction (in the base)
an opposition of social forces
historical materialism
looking at history as a series of material (like economic) transformations
immanence
when an aspect of a thing is contained within itself. (ex. contradictions are immanent within the base)
class conscienceness
the bourgeoisie is creating the stage for
class consciousness
; where you know what class you are in and the interests of your class
communist party
political party representing the proletariat, vanguards and leaders of the revolution
communism
Marx believe the final mode of production is
communism
where everyone is the proletariat = no ruling class = no class conflict
socialism
an umbrella term capturing the working-class politics that emerged in the wake of the Industrial Revolution (communism is one subset)
property vs. Bourgeois property
a market in private property not only creates industry; it also creates the most oppressive class structure in history
(which against private property and supports collective ownership)