MARXISM

REVOLUTION

• Capitalist system is weak
• Eventually workers would revolt
• Workers would gain control of the nation
• then centralize all instruments of production in the hands of the state
• Class would cease to exist

MARXIST ASSUMPTIONS

• The value of a commodity is determined by the amount of labor
• Value of commodities purchased by workers is less than values of commodities produced
• The difference represents the capitalists profit
• Bourgeois class flourishes through exploitation of the proletariat

DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM

DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM

• Class struggle
• Ruling class must represent the economically productive forces of society
• When it becomes outmoded it would be destroyed and replaced
• A classless society would eventually emerge

BOURGEOIS

PROLETARIAT

CLASS DIVISION

• Since no one group would own the means of production
• A rational structure of economic and social cooperation would thrive
• Institution such as family and religion would disappear
• Each individual would find true fulfillment
• Social utopia would be achieved