Slide show prepared for a series of lectures on Marxism for PS 240 Introduction to Political Theory at the University of Kentucky, Fall 2007. Dr. Christopher S. Rice, Lecturer.

1. Marxism Dr. Christopher S. Rice

3. The Early Marx

4. Marx Becomes A Philosopher

5. 2 effects of his career in Journalism

6. He came to appreciate the central social and political importance of economics

7. He ceased to be a liberal and became a radical

9. The Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844

10. Hegel and his influence on Marxism

11. Hegel’s Philosophy of History

12. Geist

13. Alienation ( entfremdung )

14. Dialectic the process whereby opposite views or forces come into conflict, which eventually leads to the overcoming or reconciliation of the opposition in a new and presumably higher form

21. History as the Story of Human Labor and Struggle

22. “ The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles .”

23. Materialist vs. Idealist

24. Material Forces of Production + Social Relations of Production = Material Production

25. Material Forces of Production

26. Social Relations of Production

27. The Dialectic of Class

28. Class determined by relation to the forces of production

31. False Consciousness

32. Base & Superstructure

33. Marx’s Materialist Conception of Society (Ball and Dagger, “Socialism and Communism: More to Marx”) IDEOLOGICAL SUPERSTRUCTURE BASE IDEAS, IDEALS, BELIEFS (Morality, Law, Religion, Etc.) SOCIAL RELATIONS OF PRODUCTION MATERIAL FORCES OF PRODUCTION (“Productive Forces”)

34. “ Religion is the opiate of the masses”

35. Possessive Individualism

36. Marx’s Critique of Capitalism

37. “ The bourgeoisie, historically, has played a most revolutionary part.”

38. Capitalism’s 3 important progressive functions

42. So why should Capitalism be replaced???

43. 3 Reasons

44. Capitalism is Outmoded

45. Capitalism creates Alienation

50. Capitalism is Self-subverting

51. Why capitalism is DOOOOOOOMED!

52. Capitalism contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction

53. Capitalism has created its own “grave-diggers” by creating a class with interests diametrically opposed to its own, brought them together & taught them how to cooperate

54. Thus, they become a unified class, which has common interests and a common enemy, the bourgeoisie

55. The proletariat then comes to realize that it is a class with nothing to lose but everything to gain by revolting against and overthrowing the bourgeoisie

61. The Revolutionary Sequence COMMUNISM WITHERING AWAY OF THE STATE DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT SEIZURE OF STATE POWER REVOLUTIONARY CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS IMMISERATION OF THE PROLETARIAT ECONOMIC CRISES

62. The Marxist View of Freedom (Ball and Dagger, “Socialism and Communism: More to Marx”) OBSTACLE: Class divisions, economic inequalities, unequal life chances, “False Consciousness" AGENT: Common/ Working People; The proletariat GOAL: Fulfillment of human potential and needs

64. Architecture vs. Capitalism

66. “ Capitalism, he discovered, produced only ugly, pretentious luxury goods for slave owners and ugly, shoddy goods for slaves.” - A.L. Morton

67. The Arts & Crafts Movement

68. “ I have tried to produce goods which should be genuine as far as their mere substances are concerned, and should have on that account the primary beauty in them which belongs to naturally treated substances.” William Morris

69. Artistic Criticism Social Criticism

70. Morris Transforms

71. Morris’ Marxism

72. The problem of political action: “Making Marxists”

78. Lenin’s Contributions to Marxism

79. Vanguard Party

80. Marx vs. Lenin

81. The Party’s chief role is to agitate, organize, and educate the workers, teaching them where their “true” interests lie, i.e., overcome False Consciousness.

82. The Intellectuals MUST Lead!

83. No faith in the “working-class mentality”

84. Imperialism

91. Maoism: Marxism “through a glass, darkly”

92. Heavily influenced by Lenin’s Imperialism

95. Urban Proletariat Peasantry

97. The Class Struggle recast…

98. Importance of the Vanguard Party

100. Die Institut für Sozialforschung

101. The Frankfurt School