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•Capitalism creates two •Marx and Engels were the
conflicted economic first socialist thinkers to
challenge the liberal notion •This will
•Human nature, originally classes: the bourgeoisie that the state was •Capitalism is corrupt,
by revolu
fraternal and altruistic, has and the proletariat. politically neutral: the state inefficient and ultimately and Enge
been contaminated by •Class consciousness is would always serve the self-destructive. just inevi
capitalism. needed for the proletariat interests of the ruling essential
This instils the false to overthrow their •The economic system •An entir
Karl Marx & •consciousness of oppressors; this will be class. powerfully influences or should a
Friedrich bourgeois values. brought about by •The existing liberal- conditions all aspects of the intere
Engels Dialectic change is revolution. bourgeois state is a tool of society. economi
• the dominant capitalist •It should – and will – be
propelled by the struggle •A communist society will class. replaced by an economy class, the
between exploiters abolish private property, •Once th
(capitalists) and the class differences and •It must be destroyed by based on collective had ceme
exploited (workers). differences between revolution and replaced by ownership. values, it
mental and physical a new socialist state: the replaced
labour. dictatorship of the
proletariat.
, Human Nature Society The State The Economy Rout
•Fraternity and altruism •The stru
will flourish in working- • The existing state must be proletaria
class communities, destroyed and replaced Capitalism is more democra
•Human nature has not punished by capitalist •
with a genuine democracy, resilient than Marx allowed. for worki
been damaged to the economics. complete with free speech Its necessary destruction consciou
extent alleged by Marx. •Alternative societies or and free elections. • •The exis
will require determination
•Capitalist society is class- sub-cultures exist within •A revolutionary party and solidarity among the state mus
Rosa ridden and morally downtrodden proletariat demanding blind proletariat. revolutio
Luxemburg indefensible. communities, providing a obedience would create an Workers should become require th
• Alternative societies or model for the future absolute dividing wall • espoused
sub-cultures exist within socialist society. free and independent
between the leaders and directors of society under •Proletar
downtrodden proletariat •Workers should become the masses. socialism. against s
communities. free and independent •The existing capitalist culminate
directors of society under state must be destroyed by spontane
socialism. revolution. bringing
revolutio
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