Full Marx
Increasingly dependent on their wealthy employers, the poor subsequently experience this feeling of material and psychological distress from their loss of autonomy
What is alienation?
According to Marx and Engels, all struggles that arise within a society proceed from this perpetual conflict.
What is class conflict?
An ideological purist, Lenin criticized this wing of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party for its preoccupation with improving working conditions and increasing wages.
Who are the Economists?
Critical of the contemplative nature of Feuerbach’s materialism and German Idealism, Marx proposed this practical philosophy which sought to explain human nature through its economic and social activities.
What is historical materialism?
Describing history through the dichotomies of freeman/slave, patrician/plebeian, and bourgeoisie/proletariat, Marx modified this philosopher's methodological model.
Who is Hegel?
Contradicting Marx, Lenin asserted that the working class would not achieve “social-democratic” consciousness without the guidance of this political assembly.
Who are the Bolsheviks?
Convinced that all conceptions and abstractions were derived from underlying socioeconomic structures, Marx famously characterized this institution as the "opiate of the masses"
What is religion?
While occupying a pitiable position in the current, Capitalist system, the working-class would allegedly undergo this epiphany and overthrow its bourgeois oppressors.
What is class consciousness?
Downplaying the excesses of the Revolution, Lenin offered this system of Socialist governance as a response to the "bourgeois dictatorships" of the democratic republics.
What is the Soviet system?