1 of 4 Philosophers (Marx)

Marx

• Dialectical materialism
• Capitalism -- mode of production in which a few humans own and control the major forces or means of production as their private property and they employ those who have nothing to sell but their own labor power
• Real material man in a real material world; existence is in the material world
• Man becomes alienated from the products of his own labor in the money economy of capitalism
• Trapped in a state of uneasiness
• Deepest alienation: alienation from one's own family
• Division of labor, class struggle, class consciousness, and revolutionary overthrow of capitalism
• Every concept, structure, institution must be criticized
• Ultimate weapon to change the world is the organized power of the proletariat
• Man's divinity can be realized with a worldwide revolution against the existing conditions of the world...a human being can then live as God
• Master/slave relationship
• Moral regeneration of humanity through world revolution