III. What is Living or Dead in the Writings of Karl Marx?
1. Living:
a. Free marker tendencies toward monopolies, exploitation of the workers, commercial crises and destruction competition.
b. Alienation
c. Commercialization of life under capitalism; tendency to turn social relationships into matters of money and self-interest.
d. Social interpretation of human life
e. Social dynamics of historical processes – dialectical change.
f. Importance of technology in affecting human life – emphasis on material modes of production.
g. Prospects of capitalistic imperialism
h. Critique of bourgeois freedom and private property
i. Some of the objectives of The Communist Manifesto
j. Dangers of capitalists influence on government
2. Dead
a. Workers living at bare means of subsistence under capitalism
b. Workers paradise in a communist state
c. Classless society
d. Historical Inevitability
e. Rejection of the influence of ideology and consciousness in historical change
f. Government as simply the tool of the capitalist class
g. Need for violent revolution
h. Revolutions occurring in the most advanced industrialized countries because that is where capitalism will have progressed the most to bring about its own destruction.
