PowerPoint developed and used for the first half of a series of lectures on Marxism for PS 240 Introduction to Political Theory, Spring 2007 at the University of Kentucky by Dr. Christopher S. Rice, Instructor.

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