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    Marxist anthropology is based on the works of Karl Marx and Frederich Engels. It views societal change as resulting from contradictions between the forces of production (technology) and relations of production (social organization). These contradictions emerge as a struggle between social classes. Marx analyzed capitalism during the industrial revolution, viewing history as a sequence of modes of production defined by property relations, division of labor, and exchange principles. He believed capitalism created inequalities and would be replaced by communism through class struggle arising from contradictions in the capitalist system.

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    Marxist anthropology is based on the works of Karl Marx and Frederich Engels. It views societal change as resulting from contradictions between the forces of production (technology) and relations of production (social organization). These contradictions emerge as a struggle between social classes. Marx analyzed capitalism during the industrial revolution, viewing history as a sequence of modes of production defined by property relations, division of labor, and exchange principles. He believed capitalism created inequalities and would be replaced by communism through class struggle arising from contradictions in the capitalist system.

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    Marxist anthropology is based on the works of Karl Marx and Frederich Engels. It views societal change as resulting from contradictions between the forces of production (technology) and relations of production (social organization). These contradictions emerge as a struggle between social classes. Marx analyzed capitalism during the industrial revolution, viewing history as a sequence of modes of production defined by property relations, division of labor, and exchange principles. He believed capitalism created inequalities and would be replaced by communism through class struggle arising from contradictions in the capitalist system.

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    MARXISM

    MARXIST ANTHROPOLOGY
    • Essentially an economic interpretation of history based on the works of
    Karl Marx and Frederich Engels.
    • Posits a materialist model of societal change
    • Developed as a critique and alternative to the domination of euro-
    American capitalism and Eurocentric views in the social sciences.
    • Change within a society seen as the result of contradictions arising
    between the forces of production (technology) and the relations of
    productions (social organization).
    • Such contradictions are seen to emerge as a struggle between distinct
    social classes.
    KARL MARX (1818-1883)
    The communist manifesto(1848)
    • Shows the basic struggle between classes, and recommends action against
    the ‘spectre’ of capitalism
    Capital(1867)
    -Shows how the capitalist system is exploitative in that it “transfers the fruit
    of the work of the majority … to a minority”
    -1880 reads Henry Morgan’s Ancient Society”(1877) and became interested
    in this evolutionary ideas of society
    -1883 dies before he can write a book based on his literary exploration on
    the topic.
    FREDERICH ENGELS (1820-1895)

    The Origin of Family, Private Property and State


    (1884)
    -presents the evolution of humankind from
    primitive communism, to slavery, feudalism,
    capitalism, and finally, industrial communism.
    MARXIST THEORY
    FROM ADAM SMITH

    1. Social relationships are generated by exchange


    2. A person can produce more than he requires for his own
    subsistence
    3. The power conferred by the ownership of money is the power
    to buy other people’s labor
    4. While supply and demand may cause the value of a good to
    fluctuate, its true or natural value is determined by the cost of
    the labour required to make it.
    MARXIST THEORY
    • Wrote capital during the industrial revolution in Britain
    • Much of his analysis is directed at explaining the processes
    which give rise to capitalist society
    • One of primary concerns with modes of production
    • Each mode of production has three aspects.
    • A distinctive principle determining property
    • A distinctive division of labour
    • A distinctive principle of exchange
    • Marx regarded social system as inherently unstable, rather than
    normally existing in a stable condition.
    • He found the driving force of instability in the capacity of
    human beings to produce, by their own labor more than they
    needed to subsist on.
    • He found that the way in which a social system controlled
    people’s access to the resources they needed was equally
    fundamental.
    • Marx argued that the market created inequalities
    • History is marked by the growth of human productive capacity, and the forms that history
    produced for each separate society is a function of what was needed too maximize productive
    capacity.
    • Much of the work of Marx and Engels examined the conflict generated by the increasing wealth
    of the capitalists (Bourgeoisie) at the expense of he working class (proletariat) who only sunk
    deeper into poverty
    • Marx and Engels viewed history as a sequence of evolutionary stages, each marked by a unique
    mode of production
    • The history of Europe seen in terms of the transition from feudalism to capitalism and eventually
    to communism.
    • Under the feudal system, which preceded capitalism, surplus was secured by the legal power of
    the feudal lords over the serfs and peasants who worked in their lands.

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