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Karl Marx - Coggle Diagram
Karl Marx
Questions
In what sense does Marx believe that capitalism appears like a just system but is actually exploitative? Do you agree?
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for Marx, it what sense is capitalism alienating? Are you convinced by his argument?
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hmm
determinist- said revolution was going to come? inevitable? not really, just said processes of trasnformation are natural when forces of production don't align with whatever, communist revolution seems a natural next part, but needs action to make it happen, not just inevitable that it will- inevitable that people will be driven to this action?
themes
Social Hierarchy
'the more commodities (and therefore wealth) that the worker creates the cheaper a commodity and so the poorer he becomes'- PN
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'the entire domestic structure of this nation itself depends on the level of development of its production and its domestic and foreign commerce'- GI- Marx also valued international rep. very highly
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'all property relations in the past have been continually subject to historical change consequent upon the change in historical relations'
Self-destruction
bourgeoisie in 'need of a constantly expanding market for its products'- CM, whilst making those who buy them poorer
'all historical collisions... have their origin in the conflict between the forces of production and the form of interaction'
'capitalist production moves in contradictions which are constantly overcome, only to be again, constantly re-established. Still more so - G
Alienation
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working conditions 'opposed to the worker as alien property, as the reality of another legal person and the absolute domain of their will'-G
leaves men unfulfilled in that they are separated from what they produce and work is no longer is work creative- Arendt comparison?- and they no longer have time for their own personal development that Marx deems important.
similar perhaps to Gandhi's notion of Hind Swaraj? both desire a personal development that is inhibited by the current societal conditions
False Consciousness
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'men have until now always generated false notions about themselves... the inventions of their minds (e.g. God, societal norms) have come to dominate them'- GI
part about norms interesting regarding Foucault's notion of discourse? link to ideology and suppression
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Industrialisation
many Gandhi and Arendt comparisons, though Marx was not actually against industrial technologies themselves
'free from the bonds of nature'- G, 'escape the human condition'- Arendt, 'locomotive ambition'- Gandhi
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'too much civilisation, too much means of subsistence, too much industry, too much commerce'- CM
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