WHAT WERE THE CORE TENETS OF KARL MARXISM

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WHAT WERE THE CORE TENETS OF (KARL) MARXISM (1818 -83)? What are the supposed

WHAT WERE THE CORE TENETS OF (KARL) MARXISM (1818 -83)? What are the supposed contradictions of capitalism? : • What kind of world was Marx writing for? • What is the law of capitalist accumulation (why do the bourgeoisie take surplus value from the proletariat) • What is the law of increasing misery and alienation • What is the superstructure & hegemony (false consciousness)? Why did Marx think revolution was inevitable? : • Why did capitalism replace feudalism and to what effect? • Concentration of capital kills off the petit bourgeoisie • Worker (proletariat) alienation increases • Overproduction leads to crisis and war What supposedly happens after the revolution? What’s really happened? • Why would there have be a dictatorship of the proletariat? • What was good communist (vs. socialist) life supposed to look like… no property and roughly equal outcomes end oppression (and restructure families • In what sense did Western, social democratic capitalism ultimately incorporate Marx’s ideas more effectively than communism?

WAS MAJOR REVISIONS DID VI LENIN & MAO MAKE? Leninism: • Why revolution in

WAS MAJOR REVISIONS DID VI LENIN & MAO MAKE? Leninism: • Why revolution in Russia? Why hadn’t revolution happened in W. Europe as predicted by Marx? • Can imperialism explain the lack of global revolution by temporarily dealing with the capitalism? • Why were the Bolsheviks needed as a vanguard party of the proletariat? • What’s the appeal of democratic centralism as a way of decision-making • Why did Lenin think that a command economy and the strong state would be needed at first. How did Joseph Stalin make them permanent?

WAS MAJOR REVISIONS DID VI LENIN & MAO MAKE? Maoism • In what sense

WAS MAJOR REVISIONS DID VI LENIN & MAO MAKE? Maoism • In what sense was it a response to Stalinism and Russia’s nomenclatura? • Why did Mao think communism requires violence by peasant revolutionaries? • Why did he think a society could function on a “moral economy” instead of a command economy? • Why did he think guerilla warfare and perpetual mobilization must be permanent aspects of the communist society? • How was Mao different than Stalin?