Beginners guide to Marxism

3. ‘ Factors of Production’ LAND LABOUR CAPITAL

5. Wealth is unevenly shared Proletariat Bourgeoisie Aristocracy

6. Class Struggle 1 Phase 1 Bourgeois ‘capitalists’ challenge aristocracy as industry is revolutionised

8. The Problem… There wasn’t Marxist revolution in those countries which had developed a large, more educated, working class*. The ‘revolution’ (it was in fact more a coup d’etat) occurred in backward Russia. The Bolshevik Party could either wait for the anticipated World Revolution or… * Lenin reasoned that the acquisition of empires had forestalled this.