Karl Marx View

Synthesis of thought

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Marx view of history
Holistic, historical, and materialistic. Based on mode of production
Marx view of reality
Reality is the objective of science
Marx view of theory
Theory and practice combined in thought and action
Marx view social science knowledge
Liberated from ideology, social scientific knowledge exposes exploitation of one class over another
Marx view of politics
Social scientist is poltical and should mix investigation with political activity
Marx view of values
Values mixed with values and facts. Values have material bases.
Marx view of laws
History predicated on common laws related to differing modes of producation, productive forces, and relations of production and economic development
Marx view of capitalism
Promotes exploitation of worker, resulting in alienation. Capitalism is wasteful, inefficient, and irrational.
Marx view of dialectic
Contradictions of capitalism bring about its demise
Marx view of society
Ultimately socialt, then communist, as means of production pass from private control to public control anto hands of workers' committee for managing affairs of bourgeoisie
Marx view of state
Disappears with emergence of classless society
Marx view of action
Reflection of objective material conditions determined by prouction of individuals
Marx view of industrial freedom
Possible under socialism, butlimited under capitalism where choices are determined by class position. Freedom with elimination of alienation.
Marx view of heuristic device (construct or categories)
Mode of production as material basis of society
Marx view of method
Dialectic