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| translated/edited Marxs work after his death, Major works: the condition of the english working class, anti-duhring, the dialectics of nature, the origin of the family |
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| (positivism) - unmediated sense - experience- the collection of facts and observations (qualitative and quantitative data) evidence to base your conclusions |
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| categories of the mind --> ahistorical and universal categories of the mind, that experience has to be organized so it is intelligible: causality, etc. |
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| the science of the general laws of motion, both of the external world and of human thought --> the world is a complex process, state of flux/change, uniterrupted change of coming into being and passing way |
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| The Three Principles of Dialectics |
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| unity of opposites, transformation, negation of the negation |
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| preservation of insights and contributions from history |
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| idealism, everything is ruled by reason and the ideas of dialectics, the initial forms of thins are not their "true forms" but rather their negative condition which only transforms to its true form after the negativity is overcome -- therefore given facts are temporary/partial truths |
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| leads to the dehumanization of man -- strips individuals of their human powers and turns them to animal ways, humans have species specific powers (creative intelligence) - to avoid starving man must sell their labor power because they have been separated from their means of production and alienated from their property |
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| we don’t always do things out of necessity, different needs and powers dependent on time and place in history - species specific powers and being |
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| mode of production of material life conditions the general process of soc/pol/intel life |
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| the consciousness of men determines their social being |
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| Materialist conception of history |
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| social being determines social consciousness --> the mode of production(economic) creates the cultural superstructure |
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| includes: tools, resources, labor, technology, raw materials --> allow society to create a surplus of goods beyond what is needed to survive, the development of this suplus gave rise to classes, a particular class tries to take and expropriate this surplus --> these determine the relations of production |
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| property relations between classes - those who produce the surplus and those who own and control it |
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| Mode of production (Economic Base) |
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| together relations and forces combine to make the mode of production which determines/conditions what can arise within the cultural superstructure |
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| general process of social political and intellectual life --> law, religion, morality, philosophy, ideology, art, the state, education, etc. |
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| class is defined by the ownership of property and production -- the relationship among individuals |
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| individuals occupying similar positions become involved in common struggles; a network of communication develops, and they thereby become conscious of their common fate. It is then that individuals become part of a cohesive class that consciously articulates their common interests. |
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| becoming aware of the existence of a class for it self that has different wants and desires from the ruling class |
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| capitalists, owners of the modes of production |
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| an instrument of class rule --> an instrument of exploitation of wage-labor by capital |
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| the illusions created by the oppressed/proletariat to comfort - people seek meaning and happiness in the divine hereafter rather than the human world (religion is an opium) |
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| set of common values and beliefs shared by most people in a given society, framing how the majority think about a range of topics. The dominant ideology is understood in Marxism to reflect, or serve, the interests of the dominant class in that society |
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| the systematic misrepresentation of dominant social relations in the consciousness of subordinate classes |
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| left-hegelian, elaborated the enlightenment view of religion as an "illusion", the divine is a symbolic expression, god is a creation of the human imagination, humans unconsciously project their ideals unto hypothetical beings |
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| codified dialectical materialism - economic determinism with alleged determination of the ideological superstructure by the economical infrastructure |
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| landlord exploited the peasants under his control by seizing a portion of their produce but the workforce retained direct contact with the means of production (land). Societies naturally pass from feudalism to capitalism before the inevitable emergence of the socialist society |
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| Asiatic mode of production |
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| stationary character: the absense of private ownership of land, autonomous village communities, public water/irrigation etc in control of central gov |
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| system in which all power was centralized in the hands of the emperor, the political sovereign and the absolute landlord. Absolute power of the Emperor |
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| Capitalist mode of production |
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| process that separates the producer from his means of production & subsistence while placing those means under the exclusive control of the capitalist |
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| Manufacture (hand production) |
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| increasingly complex division of labor - each laborer does one simple operation -- hand production on massive scale employed by one and the same capitalist |
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| Factory system (machine production) |
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| worker has increased productivity - capitalist desire for a productive process that is continuous and uninterrupted, worker becomes an appendage to the machine |
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| jointly written by Marx and Engels which describes their belief that capitalist society will eventually be replaced by socialism and then communism, presents an analytical approach to the class struggle (historical and present) and the problems of capitalism |
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