QUIZ pp. 629-6331. Please complete the quote –

“Working men of all countries ___________ !”

2. Where is this quote taken from?

3. Who were the authors of this?4. What German idealist

philosopher theorized the idea of the DIALECTIC?

5. Who were the two groups engaged in THE CLASS STRUGGLE according communism?

6. What was the INTERNATIONAL WORKING MEN’S ASSOCIATION /THE 1ST INTERNATIONALE?

QUIZ ANSWERS

1. UNITE2. COMMUNIST MANIFESTO 3. KARL MARX & FRIEDRICH ENGELS4. HEGEL5. BOURGEOISIE = OWNERS

PROLETARIAT = WORKERS6. UMBRELLA ORGANIZATION OF WORKING CLASS

GROUPS

INDUSTRIALIZATION ON THE CONTINENT• Key industrial development

the growth of the RR’s

• Expansion of markets

• Elimination of barriers to trade

• Before 1870 workers not well organized

• Factory owners have all the power

• After 1870 workers organize socialist parties & organize socialist trade unions

KARL MARX1. Born into prosperous

middle class family in Germany

2. Earns PhD in philosophy3. Denied position as prof

becomes journalist/editor4. Forced to move to Paris5. 1848 Marx and Engels

publish THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO

6. Failure of Revs of 1848 leads Marx to move to England

7. Spends most of his adult life in England writing DAS KAPITAL

THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO

1.FIRST AND MOST BASIC STATEMENT OF COMMUNIST PHILOSOPHY2.ADVOCATES WORKERS REVOLUTION

MARXISM = COMMUNISM = A TYPE OF SOCIALISM

1. FRENCH POLITICAL THOUGHT – REVOLUTION2. GERMAN PHILOSOPHY – IDEALISM/HEGEL3. BRITISH POLITICAL ECONOMY - ECONOMICS

HEGEL = THE DIALECTIC

1. THE THESIS

2. ANTITHESIS

3. SYNTHESIS

• Hegel said changes in history are due to clashing between antagonistic ideas

• Marx said yes and no clashes yes/ideas no clashes between social classes/material conditions = DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM

Hegel’s Dialectic and Marx’s Dialectical Materialism

THE CLASS STRUGGLE1. PROLETARIAT = the

workers2. BOURGEOISIE = the

owners

These two classes are naturally/unavoidably antagonistic

Out of the class struggle will come “THE WORKER’S REVOLUTION” = THE COMMUNIST REVOLUTION

PHASES OF MARXISM/COMMUNISM1. Industrialization2. Rich get richer/poor get poorer3. worker’s revolution4. The Dictatorship of the Proletariat = workers take control

and reorganize the means of production5. Private property and profits are eliminated communism is

created6. The state withers away the worker’s paradise is born = a

classless society

THE INTERNATIONAL WORKING MEN’S ASSOCIATION1. In 1864 Marx helps to organize “the First Internationale”2. Umbrella group for working class interests3. Dominated by Karl Marx