MARXISM
Ronald F. White, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosopher
Introduction
• Idealism-Materialism
– Ideas
– Matter
• Nature and Significance of Work
• Collectivism-Individualism
• Human History
– Determinism
– Indeterminism
– Progressivism
• Social Classes
• Politics-Economics
Idealism v. Realism
• Idealism
– Plato
– Christianity
– Hegel
• Dialectical Idealism
– Thesis, Antithesis, Progress
• Realism
– Thrasymachus
– Machiavelli
– Thomas Hobbes
The Philosophy of Work
• Plato: Producers, Military, Leaders
– Philosophy as Leisure
• Aristotle
– Intellectual Work
– Political Work
– Craft Work
• Technology and Work
Collectivism V. Individualism
• Collectivism
– Plato
– Hegel-
• Individualism
– Hobbes
– John Locke
– Adam Smith
– F.A. Hayek
Human History
Social Classes
The Relationship Between
Politics and Economics
Worldly Philosophers
• Adam Smith
• Marx
Adam Smith
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Private Property (John Locke)
Rationality
Atomic Self Interest
Problem of Scarcity
Competition
Market Capitalism
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Buyers and Sellers
Property and Persons
Supply and Demand
Value
Invisible Hand
MARXISM
• Historicism
• Materialism
• Dialectic
– Dialectical Idealism
– Dialectical Materialism
• Superstructure v. substructure
• Capital
• Law of Surplus Value
• Class Struggle
– Owners of means of production v. workers
• Alienation of Labor
• Revolution