Karl Marx

Member: Heng Sovandara Te Kimhong

Lim Vonponlea Ly Visanaroth

Institute of Foreign Language

Department of International Studies

Karl Heinrich Marx’s sociology

Lecturer: Loem Senghuo DIS E1.1 ISE Group: 2nd

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Content- Who Karl Marx Was?- Biography - His achievements- Elements of Marxist Theory- The Important of Karl Marx’s Idea- What are the Goods and Bads about

Communism?

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- Father of Communism

- German Jewish

- Scholar in Economist,

Sociologist, Philosopher,

Revolutionist

- A revolutionary who predicted

a downfall of capitalism.

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Early Life- Born: May 5th 1818 in Trier, Prussia

Rhineland

- 1830 - Trier High School

- 1835 - University of Bonn

- 1836 - University of Berlin(Young

Hegelian)

- 1841 - Completed Doctorate at Jena

- Moved to Cologne and became editor

of a radical newspaper, Rheinische

Zeitung in 1842

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Later Life- 1843 - moved to Paris

- 1845 - moved to

Brussels

- 1849 - moved to London

- Death: March 17th 1883

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Paris- Editor of a new radical newspaper “Deutsch Franzosische”

(German-French Annals) & German newspaper:

“Vorwarts!” (Forward!)

- 1844 – Meet Friedrich Engels, his lifelong friend

- Study Political Economy, French Socialists, History of

France

- Outline of Marxism are formed – Economic and

Philosophical Manuscripts & Das Capital & Theory of

Surplus Value

- 1845 – “Vorwarts!” shut down

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Brussels

- Manuscript “The German Ideology”

- 1848 – Released “The Communist Manifesto”

- Support a radical democratic line against the Prussian

autocracy

- Moved out of Germany

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London - Live in poverty

- New York Daily Tribune

- 1857 – Theories of Surplus Value manuscript was ready

- First International - elected to its General Council in 1864

- 1867 – Volume one of Das Capital

- March 14th 1883 - Dead

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Elements of Marxist Theory:- Society

- Economic

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Marx Theory on Economic:- Labor theory of value

- Surplus value

- Surplus Product

- Exploitation

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Are heterodox economic theories of value that argue the

value of a commodity is only related to the labor needed to

produce or obtain that commodity and not to other factors

of production (except as those elements can be regarded

as embodies labor.

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Labor theory of value

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Distinguish between labor time worked and labor power

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Surplus Value

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It was simply that part of what workers produced (a

product person or service) which they had to hand over to

the chief, the landowner, the lord or the state, in the form

of a tax rent or tribute.

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Surplus Product

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The subjection of producers (the proletariat) to work for

passive owner (bourgeoisie) for less compensation than is

equivalent to the actual amount of work done.

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Exploitation

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Marx Theory on Society:- Historical Materialism

- Alienation

- Mode of Production

- Class Consciousness

- Class Struggle

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Look for the cavies of development and champs in human

society in the means by which human collectively produce

the necessaries of life.

Historical Materialism

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Describe the separation of things that naturally belong

together, and the placement of antagonism between

things that are properly in harmony.

There are 4 type of alienation:

- Alienation of the worker from the work

- Alienation of the worker from working

- Alienation of the worker from himself, as a

provider

- Alienation of the worker from other worker

Alienation

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- Productive Forces: human labor power and available

knowledge giving the level of technology in the mean of

production. Ex: tools, equipment,...

- Social and Technical relation of Production: property,

power and control relation governing society’s

productive assets.

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Mode of Production

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Refer to the belief that a person holds regarding one’s

social class or economic tank in society, the structure of

their class, and their class interests.

Class Consciousness

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“THE HISTORY OF ALL HITHERTO EXISTING SOCIETY IS THE

HISTORY OF CLASS STUGGLE.”

Class Struggle is the tension or antagonism which exists in

society due to competing socioeconomic interests and desires

between people of different classes.

There are 2 main class struggle :

+ Bourgeoisie (Owner)

+ Proletariat (Worker)

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Class Struggle

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China

Cuba Laos North Korea

Vietnam

Cyprus

Nepal

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- People who believed in

Marx’s idea are called

“Marxist”.

- Marxism

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- The symbol of Communism: Hummer and Sickle.

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Conclusion

Any question?