-Why did Marxists come to believe
that this distinction was paramount for understanding history?
Marx believed the struggle between the
upper class and the working class created history. That one day the
working class would finally rise up.
-What steps did Marx and Engels
believe would lead to a classless society?
1)Abolition of property in land and
application of all rents of land to public purposes.
2)A heavy graduated income tax.
3)Abolition of all right of
inheritance...
4)(Just realized there is no number
four.)
5)Centralization of credit in the hands
of the State, by means of a national bank with State capital and an
exclusive monopoly.
6)Centralization of the means of
communication and transport in the hands of the State.
7)Extension of factories and
instruments of production owned by the State.
8)Equal liability of all to labor.
Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
9)Combination of agriculture with
manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction
between town and country, by a more equable distribution of the
population over the country.
10)Free education for all children in
public schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present
form...
-Considering that Marx criticized
early socialists as utopian and regarded his own socialism as
scientific, does his socialism also seem utopian? If so, in what
ways?
Utopian socialist thinkers did not use
the term utopian to define their ideas. Marx refferred to all
socialist ideas as a simple vision, a distant goal.
I do not typically use wikepedia, but I
did for this part.
“Utopian
socialists were likened to scientists who drew up elaborate designs
and concepts for creating what socialists considered a more equal
society.”
Marx
was trying to create an equal society as well. Which would consider
him a utopian socialist thinker.
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