How is a Class Consciousness formed?

Contradictions lead to recurring crises, crises leads to CC

What are Marx's Aspects of Alienation?

Products, Process, People, Potential

Which is not one of Marx's causes of negative alienation?

Separation from nature and the natural world

What does Hegel define Reason to be?

Understanding and connection with God/Spirituality

Define Feuerbach's Materialist Idea

Understanding human social relation through material needs.

What are the Preconditions for the Labour Theory of Value?

Free Capitol, Free Labour, Free Market

What does SNALT Stand for?

Socially Necessary Abstract Labour Time

Hegel's Dialectics: What is not involved in the process of negation

Certain types of the system will flip and exist as opposite

Which is not one of Marx's criticisms of the Scientific Description of the W/C relation in LTV?

Human labour isn't the only way to create value (machines)

What is Marx's Definition of Alienation?

Feeling & objective structural condition of powerlessness

What is not a benefit to Socialism?

Public ownership of means of production will end alienation

What did Marx learn from French socialist society?

Focus on the power of the urban proletariat

Socialism “negation” of capitalism, which factor is unrelated to this fact?

Ends production of surplus value

What is not a purpose of the Labour Theory of Value?

Defining the role of the worker vs the role of the capital

Which is not one of Marx's criticisms of the Moral/Ideological Justification of the LTV?

Can't put value on labour because its an open commodity

According to Marx what is not a structural contradiction built into Logic of W-L/C Relations?

Materialist Focus (overproduction of goods)

Which is not a relevant factor to why Revolution does not take place?

Lack of Recourses / Powerlessness of the Proletariat

What feature does Marxism share with scientific method?

Empirical & Comparative: Census, government statistics, etc), Analytical/Logical → LTV, Historical: Laws of Historical Development, Materialist: focus on economics/production

How does Marx’s method differs from Science?

Laws historically specific to particular Modes of Production, Relational, Philosophical Assumptions, Dialectical

What is Marx's Critique of the Labour Theory of Value

Found the SNALT system flawed as it traded overvalued labour

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How is a Class Consciousness formed?
The rational progress of history will lead to CC
Contradictions lead to recurring crises, crises leads to CC
By studying from Marx's work the proletariat will form CC
Use of Reason will lead the proletariat to come together
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What are Marx's Aspects of Alienation?
Privatization, Process, Pauperization, Potential
Privatization, Process, People, Potential
Products, Places, People, Progress
Products, Process, People, Potential
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Which is not one of Marx's causes of negative alienation?
Complex technical division of labour
Separation from nature and the natural world
Private appropriation of surplus value
Private ownership of the means of production
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What does Hegel define Reason to be?
Understanding and connection with God/Spirituality
The complete understanding of individual & spiritual thought
The individual's ability to think rationally and freely
The understanding and rejection of spirituality
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Define Feuerbach's Materialist Idea
Defining society based on the need to create/innovation.
Furthering Hegel's Reason through the protestant work ethic.
Understanding human social relation through material needs.
Those driven by materialistic desire won't feel alienation
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What are the Preconditions for the Labour Theory of Value?
Private Ownership, Workers, Community Hub
Capitol, Labour, Market
Free Workers, Free Capitalist System, Free Community Hub
Free Capitol, Free Labour, Free Market
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What does SNALT Stand for?
Socially Necessary Abstract Labour Time
Society's Needed Abstract Lounging Time
Socially Necessary Absolute Labour Travel
Socially Needed Absolute Labour Time
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Hegel's Dialectics: What is not involved in the process of negation
Certain elements stay part of the system
Certain types of the system will flip and exist as opposite
Certain elements will be introduced that have never existed
Certain elements of the old relation completely disappear
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Which is not one of Marx's criticisms of the Scientific Description of the W/C relation in LTV?
The system is structured in the interest of the capitalists.
Human labour isn't the only way to create value (machines)
The capitalist keeps the surplus value is unjust
It justifies an exchange of non-equivalents (labour/wages)
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Which is not a type of French Socialism?
bourgeois socialism
’top-down’ socialism
primitive communism
anti moralism
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What is Marx's Definition of Alienation?
Issues when new ideas do not fit with the old
Feeling & objective structural condition of powerlessness
The rejection of deviants from capitalist society
Individual feeling of isolation and separation from society
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Which is not part of Hegel's Dialectics?
Continuation
Unity of Opposites
Negation
Progress
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What is the Level of Analysis that Marx studies?
Class/Society
Structural
Individual
Consensus
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What is not a benefit to Socialism?
End of private ownership of means of production
Public ownership of means of production will end alienation
It will stop of worst effects of complex TODL
End of private appropriation of surplus value
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What is the Unit of Analysis that Marx studies?
Class/Society
Conflict
Individual
Structural
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What did Marx learn from French socialist society?
The scientific study of the moral structure of capitalism
Systemic problems with the economic structure
How view the capitalist system from a moral perceptive
Focus on the power of the urban proletariat
17
Socialism “negation” of capitalism, which factor is unrelated to this fact?
Retains productivity of capitalism (including TDOL)
Ends production of surplus value
Abolish private property/ownership of means of production
Establish New relations of production: Collective Ownership
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What is not a purpose of the Labour Theory of Value?
Justification of the capitalist system
Defining the role of human labour power
Defining the role of the worker vs the role of the capital
Explaining exchanging work & how much a commodity is worth
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Which is not one of Marx's criticisms of the Moral/Ideological Justification of the LTV?
The worker is NOT FREE they are inherently exploited
To maximize work its organized in an unfulfilling/boring way
The theory violates its own preconditions
Can't put value on labour because its an open commodity
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According to Marx what is not a structural contradiction built into Logic of W-L/C Relations?
Pauperization (class divisions caused by private surplus)
Rationalization of Production at Level of Firm (alienation)
Materialist Focus (overproduction of goods)
Concentration and Centralization of Capital (monopoly)
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Which is not a relevant factor to why Revolution does not take place?
Lack of Recourses / Powerlessness of the Proletariat
Theory of Human Nature / Religion
Liberalism (individualist ideology) / Welfare State / Unions
High Standard of Living for Working Class in Developed World
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What feature does Marxism share with scientific method?
Empirical & Comparative: Census, government statistics, etc)
Analytical/Logical → LTV
Historical: Laws of Historical Development
Materialist: focus on economics/production
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Is Marxism a Science?
No
Yes
Yes/No
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How does Marx’s method differs from Science?
Laws historically specific to particular Modes of Production
Relational
Philosophical Assumptions
Dialectical
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What is Marx's Critique of the Labour Theory of Value
Sees the of division of the surplus value as flawed
Found the SNALT system flawed as it traded overvalued labour
Did not believe that labour is a commodity
Did not believe that only human labour can create value.

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