Karl marks power point presentation

Karl marks power point presentation

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  Karl Marks Biography ofhis thought of sociology
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   He wasthe eldest son of Neinrich and Henrictta Marx  He was born on 5th may 1818 in the Rhenish city of tire in Germany  When he was 6, Karl was baptized along with the other children, but his mother waited until 1825, after her father died.  Marx was an average student. He was educated at home until he was 12 and spent five years, from 1830 to 1835, at the Jesuit high school in Trier  He studied law form Berlin University and Doctorate in     Philosophy from University of Jena He started his career as journalist in “Rheinsche Zeitung” Earned his living (badly) as a journalist In 1983 he married to Jenny von Westphalen  Largely lived off of her inheritance Died 1883 in London having only written 3 of the planned 8 volumes of Das Kapital.
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  karl marx He wasknown as champion of communist He wrote The Communist Manifesto with his friend, Friedrich Engels in 1848. He had three kinds of writing: •Journalism •Political polemic •Analysis of society and culture.
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  Theory of History Marx’s theory of history is called Dialectical Materialism.  It is derived from  Hegel’s idea that history follows a pattern of progress through (ideological) conflict—“thesis, antithesis, synthesis”—called the dialectic and  Feuerbach’s idea, called materialism, that the ideas that people come up with are their ways of making sense of the material conditions they are in.
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  Essential aspect ofThesis- Anti thesis synthesis  Hegal conceived of history as a dialectical process, or struggle of opposites, in which the dominant idea of each age assumed the role of a thesis  The thesis was soon confronted and eventually defeated by an anti thesis or opposite.  This contest finally result in production of a synthesis which incorporated the more value elements of both thesis and anti thesis
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  Relation between themode of production and Social structures  According to Marx the nature of society and its       structure depends upon mode of production He spoke the five stage of the society which correspond to five consecutive mode of production they are: Primitive stage Ancient stage Feudal stage Capitalist stage Communist stage
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  Criticism of Dialectical materialism Marx unnecessarily limited the range of the     theoretical scheme of historical materialism Is the truth of historical materialism itself historically determined? Or is it valid for all the history past and present? The material interpretation of history is incorrect for it exaggerates the role of economic factors Further there is the problem of measuring the determining effect of economic factors The constant association between economic ownership and political power which is basic postulate of Marx theory has been rejected as inconsistent by the thinker like Raymond Aron C.