Marxism

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Mind Map on Marxism, created by hpmad98 on 10/16/2014.
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Marxism
  1. Karl Marx
    1. Believed that there's a conflict between ruling class and subject class
      1. Capitalism is an economic system based on principles of business- goods sold to make profit
        1. Working class are employed by the ruing class to make products for a wage, which are sold to consumers for more than they cost to make which makes a profit for RC
          1. RC= BOURGEOSIE
            1. WC= PROLETARIAT
            2. RC benefit at expense of WC
              1. EVERYTHING BENEFITS CAPITALISM
              2. Engels
                1. Friend of Marx
                  1. Evolutionary view of the family
                    1. Early Stages
                      1. Means of production communally owned
                        1. Era of primitive communism
                          1. Early humans didn't own property and lived in tribes
                            1. Tribes= Promiscuous hordes
                          2. Origins of today's nuclear family
                            1. Lies in changes made to private property
                              1. With rise of private property inheritance became necessary- fathers needed to know who their kids were to pass the property on
                                1. Need for monogamy arose hence family created
                                  1. Family serves economy with creation of ownership of property
                                    1. Accompanied by creation of state
                                      1. Ensuring the continuation and legality of marriage and the family
                                    2. Main functions=
                                      1. Subordination of women
                                        1. Passing on private property from one male generation to the next
                                        2. Criticisms
                                          1. Evidence of monogamous marriage and nuclear family in hunter groups
                                            1. Idea of promiscuos hordes is possiblya figment of Engels' imagination
                                          2. Eli Zaretsky
                                            1. Recent family life
                                              1. Family life split by development of industrial society
                                                1. Family important as it stands in opposition to world of industry
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