Karl Marx – The Father of Communism - PowerPoint Presentation

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Karl Marx –

The Father of Communism

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Karl Marx

The Father of Communism

Where would you find a

Hallmark card for that?

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Karl Marx – The Fourth Marx Brothers ?

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Second only to Jesus Christ, Marx is the most influential man who ever lived

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Never ran a company.

Never held political office.

Never oversaw any accounts.

Never even held a job – any job.Supported throughout his life by

His friend Friedrich

Engles

,

The son of a wealthy factory owner

Considered by many to be the greatest

Social, Political and Economic philosopher

o

f all time.

Yet

All applications of his theories have ended in failure

..

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S

ocial scientists focusing on social

classes

Main focus was that

social class

dictated

social life

.If one is in the upper class, life was one of leisure and abundanceWhile those in the lower class lived lives of hardship and poverty

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While in Paris from 1843 to 1845,

Marx meet with other radical thinkers and

revolutionists,

For Paris had become a center

for social

, political and

artistic

thinking

Marx was able to study socialist theories that

were

not available to him in Germany.

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While in Paris, Marx

met and became lifelong friends with Friedrich Engels and was immersed into the socialist world, focusing on the conditions of the working class.

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On the social ladder – the highest rung would be –

whoever controls the production of manufacturing

what people need to survive

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T

wo types of people that existed historically.

The

“haves” and the “have-nots”

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The “haves” called “

capitalists”

had all the money needed to build new

“means of production.”

“Have-nots

,” called

the “

proletariat

(working class),work for the man

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The working classes have

always lived in different circumstances and had different relations to the owning and ruling classes.

 

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Middle Ages -

serfs

to the

land-owning nobility

Industrial Revolution -

journeymen

to the bourgeois

masters.

As manufacturing developed, journeymen became manufacturing workers who were

then employed by larger

capitalists

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Translated –

Slave will be cared for only because of the cash

Invested in the purchase of said slave -

Where as society could care less about

t

he individual

Proletarian

– (factory worker)

they are paid to work

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In the industrial society, the aristocracy was replaced by the

capitalists (also known as the bourgeoisie).

These capitalists

owned businesses with the goal of earning a profit, and the working class was replaced by the

proletariat, the people who labored for wages.

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A slave

, property of one

master

, is assured an existence, however miserable

it

may be, because of the master’s

investment

The

proletarian, property as it were of the entire bourgeois class which buys his labor only when someone has need of it, has no secure existence.

This

existence is assured only to the class as a whole.

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I

ndustrial Revolution – s

tarted with the development of steam engines –

Machines made products faster and cheaper

R

evolutionized production

D

isplaced workers

.

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Worker went from making the whole item to

making just one piece of the whole item – then passing the item to another who added to

it

This

division

of labor

made

it

possible to produce things faster and cheaper.The worker

endlessly repeated mechanical motions which could be performed not only as well but much better by a machine

. .

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Division of Labor

Worker learns one job – no need for the Man to

waste time and money teaching worker all

the other aspects of production

Becomes very good at it

Able to produce items faster which saves money

Disadvantages to this practice?

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The price of an object is determined by who much it cost to make it

Marx felt that the

price of labor is also equal to the cost of production of labor

.

Translated – the true value

of an object is based upon the

production of labor

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C

ost

of production of labor

is determined by what it cost for the worker to live

The worker will therefore get no more for his labor than is necessary

The price of labor, or the wage,

will be

the lowest, the minimum, required for the maintenance of life.

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.

Labor is a

commodity

like any

other

I

ts price

is

therefore determined by exactly the same

laws

that apply to other

commodities

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Capitalism

is an economic system where the means of production is owned by private individuals.

T

he

economy and the use of resources are controlled by individual business owners and private companies

.

A capitalist system is also known as

free market enterprise.

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Unfair distribution

of wealth within a society would

cause

problems for Karl Marx

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The wealthy would be the individuals who owned the land and factories.

The

wealthy would then control all elements of society - including the livelihoods of the lower, working class.

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The lower, working class would work for hourly wages on the land or in the factories.

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Problems emerge when capitalists pay the working classes very low wages while keeping the

profits

R

ich become richer and the poor would

stay poorer

.

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Marx hoped that this would

lead to the working class becoming angry, and

rising up to

seize the

means of

production

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W

orkers

would

distribute

the wealth in a fair manner among all members of society

This stage known as

“socialism.”

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A socialist state would have the workers own the means of production and all would share the

profits

The

workers would be working for themselves, not for the benefit of the capitalists.

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Under

capitalism, Marx believed

that the workers

would become poorer

and

poorer and

experience

alienation.

Workers becoming isolated from, their work, resulting in a feeling of

powerlessness

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To replace this alienation and extreme social class structure, Marx believed that capitalism had to end and be replaced by a

socialist system

that would make all equal and have all people's needs met.

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In his work with Fredrick Engels,

The Communist Manifesto,

stated

, 'The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.

Marx called

for a workers' revolution where the proletarians would rise up against the bourgeoisie, overthrowing capitalism.

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Revolution

will eliminate private property.

No

longer will man have the means of exploiting another man.

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A

“temporary” dictatorship

will step in and help to re- develop society (re-build industry, create laws, etc.)

The

“temporary” dictatorship will voluntarily give up power, thus creating a classless, borderless utopia

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All forms of government would slowly disappear, as the workers understood the benefit of working for the good of each other.

Once

this model

occurred, his ideal society that he called

communism

would exist.

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The Worker’s Utopia

In

the end, a

classless society with no more oppression

People

will be free to choose how they labor, and can be

productive

.

.

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It is here where the state withers away, here where “from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs” applies

.

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So I guess that true communism is a society

where there is

No government

The people are the government

And the wealth is divided equally amongst the people

(What a pile of dung)

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To

Marx's despair, such

revolutions occurred in various countries such as Russia

but did not occur in industrialized

nations

such as Britain

and Germany.

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New Ideas vs. Old Ideas

Clash of the Old with the New

Combination of the two and the best of both ideas

c

reate a new idea

This new idea soon clashes with a newer still idea

a

nd then mix and draw the best parts and a

another new idea is bornSo On and So On