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| Plato's "Republic" and Christianity |
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| rulers devote all of their energies to running state; abolition of private property; elitess ruling class; total well-being of society (whole rather than individual); regulating breeding |
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| doctrine of rich helping poor; distribution of wealth; condenation of wealthy; giving up in order to recieve |
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| people see it as a new and better life |
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| see it as a threat to their freedom and way of life |
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| people don't fully understand the ramification of it; don't realize its inatequacies over its appeals; very deceptive appealing economic doctrine; special appeal to the "Have Nots" |
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| highly emotional; appeals to person who is desperate, idealistic, or dedicated humanitarian; members are motivated by position in higherarchy; not anxious to give up position--work to keep party together |
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| businessman; journalist-wrote about the ills of the working class; revolutionary-official in the Internationals; Financial assistance to Marx; Published final versions of "Das Kapital" and Communist Manifesto after Marx died |
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| economic and social enviornment that shaped theory |
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| revolutionary disturbances in France and Germany; societal upheaval in England caused by the Industrial Revolution; Utopian Socialists, Intellctuals who preached anarchy; 1848-revolutionary action of Western Europe which culminated in outward attacks on capitalism and the laissez-faire policy (not the good of the whole) |
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| explotation of the poor; gap between rich and poor widened |
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| different school of historic interpretation |
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| religion, political, hero interpretation, impact of ideas, military interpretation |
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| all history and human development are part of God's design of the universe (Flaw: the Divine concept isn't knowable to man) |
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| all history is a result of leaders, kings, and/or legislatures, (FLAW: human nature/ problems are more intricit than just politics) |
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| overstresses the role of individual at the expense of larger cultural, religious, and economic circumstances (FLAW:no one person changed society) |
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| (Hegel) ideas are the principle cause of the historic process and that all material conditions are derived from great ideas |
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| cause of one war or another (FLAW: war is ofter result rather than cause) |
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| Marx's analysis of society |
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| base of all social processes and institution, economic factor, man's social existence determines their consciousness, ownership of the means of industrial production is the masster key in any society |
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| Base of all social processes and institutions |
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| production and exchange of goods and services |
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| the foundation upon which the superstructure of society, culture, government, and religion is erected |
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| man's social existence determines their consciousness |
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| what you do depends on what class you're from (wealthy set predominent social standards and value) |
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| ownership of the means of industrial prroduction is the master key in any society |
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| capitalists control not only economics but politics as well |
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| levels a vicious attack on the capitalist economic system; theory of dialectic materialism; economic determinism; class conflict a natural state in a class society; surplus value theory;change must be achieved by revolution; vanguard of the revolution; capitalism will create its own downfall; establishment of dictatorship; elimination of private ownership; new society and all workers will have the opportunity to work; goal; ideal; international movement |
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| communist party goes all over the world; national loyalties give way to class loyalties worldwide |
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| each person will work according to his/her ability; recieve according to needs |
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| have a classless society leads to eventual withering away of state |
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| new society and all workers will have the opportunity to work |
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| all society will have the opprotunity to work |
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| elimination of private ownership |
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| root of all evil; take all land by gov and havae common ownership of all economic activity; don't compinsate for it |
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| establishment of a dictatorship |
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| inaugerate new society; protect them from counter-revolutionaries (doesn't say how they're chosen, or how long they govern) |
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| capitalism will create its own downfall |
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| people will want more; deterierate from within |
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| vanguard of the revolution |
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| communist party offers leadership and ideology, labor needs these people because the need incentive/ motivation |
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| people ahead of society (hard core revolutionary) |
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| change must be achieved by revolution |
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| boug. won't give up status |
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| levels of vicious attack on the capitalist economic system |
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| private property, explotation by few of many; profit motive; competition |
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| theory of dialectic materialism |
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| official philosophy of marxism, story of forces, any movement (thesis) has opposing movement (antithesis), when they meet, they collade and create a new movement (synthesis);thesis = capitalism, antithesis = proletariat, synthesis = communism (INEVITABLE) |
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| economy is basis which determines all things in society political, social, economical, cultural |
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| class conflict a natural state in a class society |
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| classes = conflict; one class will always try to best the other class |
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| labor is a commodity; should be rewarded by increased pay instead labor produces but Bougeoise pocket profit (explotation of labor); gage to measure the degree of capitalist explotation |
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