Marx and Engels

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As in the case with the notes on Locke, Blake and Wordsworth, these notes summarize our class discussions. And, again, I have not provided references to the texts. Finding these is your responsibility. Please note that in many of these notes I am presenting Marx's views of, for example, the history of class struggle and why a communist revolution will eventually occur. I am not presenting my own views.

Our discussions on the Marxist approach to understanding political and social life ranged far and wide in all three of my IH52 sections. So in the main notes you will find some links to specialized and advanced discussion of some issues that have come up in one or more of the courses. These notes are meant to give those of you especially interested in a subject, more ideas to think about. So they go beyond what we talked about in class.

Marx's Theory of Human Nature: Alienation and Productive Activity

Social Class and Property

The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism

The Transition from Capitalism to Communism

The Failure of Revolution

Politics Under Capitalism

Distributive Justice Under Capitalism and Communism

Control of Work: Control Over the Means of Production Under Capitalism and Communism

Politics Under Communism

Marxism and Leninism

Enlightenment, Romanticism and Marx

What is Dead in Marx

What is Living in Marx (Under Construction)