Rock Paper Scissors Each player gets 2 paper

Rock, Paper, Scissors Each player gets 2 paper clips (each paper clip is worth 5 points) One paper clip is the min. necessary for your survival. Any more = extra credit. You may accept or refuse a challenge to play, EXCEPT from a player that has more paper clips than you. In that case, you MUST play. You may go at it alone, pool resources, divide winnings or create alliances. The winner of each challenge takes one paper clip from the loser. Once a player has lost all their clips, they become the employee of the winner of said match. As an employee, the individual must challenge others on behalf of their boss. Once two units are earned for the boss, the employee keeps one unit, gives one to the boss and gains their independence. If an employee with nothing loses to another, he becomes the employee of the new winner, unless the new winner is also an employee. Then both work for the original employer. Employees may not challenge their boss.

They wrote the ‘Communist Manifesto’ in 1847. It’s a short book – but billions of people have read it…. This is Karl Marx, the ‘Father of Communism’. People who believe in his ideas are called ‘Marxists’

What is Communism? Marx studied the history of the world’s economies. This means the way that power, industry and finance are controlled. They saw the way countries developed in stages. Socialism Capitalism Feudalism Primitive Communism

Primitive Communism This is how humans first lived together – in small tribes. Primitive means basic. Communism means that everything was shared– food, jobs, belongings. No one owned land. Eventually a group comes to power – this leads to Feudalism…

Under feudalism, a king or emperor or chief becomes the ruler over all the people. Feudalism Primitive Communism The people are kept uneducated and told that god chose the king to rule. The church helps the king this way. He gives land privileges to ‘nobles’ who rule the people for him. As trade develops, some people get richer. This leads to Capitalism…. .

The business owners get richer while the workers do all the hard work. Capitalism Feudalism Capitalism creates a huge workingclass of people who soon get angry at the way they are treated. They eventually organize and demand changes.

The workers take control of the country to produce things for everyone. Capitalism In the Socialist revolution all the rulers – kings, churches, capitalists are eliminated. Because nothing is made for profit, all people benefit from education and health. Socialism These ideas spread across the world to create Communism….

The remaining capitalists put up a bitter fight, but the will of the people will always win. Communism Socialism As everyone now works together, war is a thing of the past – armies are not needed. Sharing means no police are needed. Everything is provided by the people – so money becomes a thing of the past. All human activity goes towards benefiting each other.

The Goal of Communism Goal: to get rid of social classes and make everything fair for everyone

What is Capitalism An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit. Capitalism is said to promote economic growth and the overall standard of living. In other words, capitalism creates CAPITAL (money) …and lots of it.

Capitalism 101 Buyers (people) influence the market through their demand ability to purchase goods and services. There is very little government intervention. Producers (businesses) are motivated by profit (money) and therefore create whatever goods people will buy. In other words, the businesses run the economy, the government stays out of it!

Capitalism Advantages: You can own property Individuals can prosper/competition for wages Freedom of speech, press, religion Embrace ethnic diversity Makes the individual work worth something Disadvantages: Poverty Not everyone has healthcare Monopolies- control too much business Creates inequalities (ex: rich vs poor, have vs have not)

Communism Advantages: Everyone gets something (equal) No unemployment Healthcare for all citizens Cooperation of the people (work for the country to benefit) Disadvantages: Abuse of power Restrictions- no freedom of speech, press, no religious practices Censorship Against ethnic diversity Government controls property- very little if any, could own private property Individual doesn’t compete, in some ways lazy and does not need to strive for more