Introduction to our critical Marxism

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Outline:

I. Who was Karl Marx?

a. Biography

b. Intellectual biography

i. German philosophy

ii. French utopian socialism

iii. British political economy


II. What was distinctive about Marx’s method?

a. Historical materialism

b. Class struggle

c. Role of the proletariat

d. Lesson of Revolution of 1848:

Political independence of the proletariat

e. Lesson of the Paris Commune of 1871:

The capitalist state must be smashed.

f. Das Kapital (Capital) – theory of capitalism

i. Labor theory of value – exploitation

ii. Capitalist crises


III. What was Marx’s relationship to the labor movement?

a. French – Proudhon

b. British trade unions

c. International Workingmen’s Association (IWA) – First International