Karl Marx

• Karl Marx - According to him, “the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.”
• Bourgeosie - rich
• Proletariat - poor
• Types of Needs

  1. Primary Needs
  2. Secondary Needs
• Types of Needs

  Primary Needs - Are biological or physical needs that are essential to life.

  Example: food, water, clothing, and shelter
• Types of Needs

  Secondary Needs - Are wants or acquired needs they are more likely desires.

  Example: safety, love, respect, creativity
• Four Kinds of Alienation

  1. Alienation towards the Object/Product
  2. Alienation towards your Act/Labor
  3. Alienation towards your Species-Being
  4. Alienation to the others
• Four Kinds of Alienation

  Alienation towards the Object/Product

  • A loss, in the very mundane and human sense, that the act of producing it is the same act in which it becomes the property of another.
  • Produce kag painting pero imo I sell para mahimog property sa lain
• Four Kinds of Alienation

  Alienation towards your Act/Labor

  • In labouring I lose control over my life-activity. Not only do I lose control over the thing I produce, I lose control over the activity of producing it. My activity is not self-expression.
  • Sacrificing your secondary needs para lang mapugos kag trabaho sa lain nga need
• Four Kinds of Alienation

  Alienation towards your Species-Being

  • When the makers of things are separated from their ownership of them is grounded in this definition of human nature.
  • Extroverted guy before, now is a introverted guy
• Four Kinds of Alienation

  Alienation to the Others

  • When a person withdraws or becomes isolated from their environment or from other people.
  • The problem is capitalist is like a competition between people like jobs.
• What makes us distinctively human is our capacity of Intelligence (Reason) and of Work (Labor Power)
• Our goal is the SATISFACTION of these needs!
• Exploitation

  • The theft of economic power in all class-based societies, including capitalism, through the working class (or the proletariat, as Marx called them) being forced to sell their labor.
  • Like overtime sa trabaho para lang naay extra income, pero sa uban kay mo ingon rag “thank you”
• Bloody Revolution

  • “Workers of the world unite, We’ve got nothing to loose but our chains”
• Alienation - Is sacrificing your secondary needs for the sake of your primary needs (gipugos lang kag trabaho para lang sa imong primary needs).
• Karl Marx is infamous of his idea on capitalism
• Society is divided into two: Superstructure and Base