published by: Touseef Ahmed Khan Some important key concepts and ideology • Types of Marxism

1. Karl Marx
“Father of Communism”
Group Members
Touseef Ahmed
Amir Jamal
Roshi
Fozia
Waseem Akram
Masooma
Fazila Parveen

2. Presentation
Overview
Early Life
The Start of His Activism
Exile
DAS KAPITAL
Communist Manifesto
A Final Trip to London
MARXISM
Feudalism
The Industrial Revolution
Capitalism
Socialism
Communism
Major Contributions
The Specter of Communism

3. Early Life
Karl Marx was born on
May 5, 1818 in Trier, Germany.
He was raised in a middle class,
working family.
He converted to Catholicism
early on in his life

4. At the University of Bonn, where he studying
law.
Afterwards, he transferred to the University of
Berlin, where he discovered History &
Philosophy.

5. The Start of His Activism
His first job was as a journalist
Due to the anti-government leanings of his paper,
it was shut down by the authorities in 1843
He met a man that would grow
into a life long friend and
associate, Friedrich Engels.

6. Exile
Exiled to Paris in 1843 by the Prussian
government
Exiled to Brussels in 1845 by the French
Government
Returned to Prussia after the 1848 revolution, but
exiled to London in 1850

7. DAS KAPITAL
Bible of Communism
Das Kapital which appeared in
three volumes. Only vol I
appeared while he was alive.
Volumes II and III were edited
by Engels and appeared after
Karl Marx’s death in 1883
Marx proposes that the motivating force of
capitalism is in the exploitation of labor

8. Communist Manifesto
Written in 1848 it was
commissioned to Marx and Engels at
the second Congress of the
League of Communists in
London their ideas for how the
capitalist society of the time would
eventually be replaced by socialism

9. Communist Manifesto
Explain the goals of Communism, as well as the
theory underlying this movement. It argues that
class struggles, or the exploitation of one class by
another, are the motivating force behind all
historical developments. Class relationships are
defined by an era's means of production.

10. A Final Trip to London
He traveled with his family to England in August
of 1849, where he would live out the rest of his
life.
Marx spent the next eleven years focusing on his
studies and research in the reading room of the
British Museum.

11. MARXISM
Developed in the 19th century jointly by Karl Marx (1818-1883) and Friedrich
Engels (1820-1895)
Marxism is the name for a set
of political and economic ideas. The base of these
ideas comes from the works of Karl
Marx and Friedrich Engels

12. Feudalism
Marx argued that societies naturally
pass from feudalism to capitalism
before.
In a feudal system, a peasant or worker
known as a vassal received a piece of
land in return for serving a lord or
king, especially during times of war.
Vassals were expected to perform
various duties in exchange for their
own fiefs, or areas of land.

13. The Industrial Revolution
the period of time during which work began to be
done more by machines in factories than by
hand at home

14. Capitalism
Economic system in which
the means of production
and distribution are
privately or corporately
owned and the operations
are funded by profits.

15. Class Struggle
(in Marxist ideology) the conflict of
interests between the Proletariat and the
Bourgeoisie in a capitalist society, regarded
as inevitably violent.

16. Socialism
A system that advocates the state's
ownership of land, industry and capital.
Communism is a branch of socialism.

17. Communisum
It is a political and economic system in which the
major productive resources in a society—such as
mines, factories, and farms—are owned by the
public or the state, and wealth is divided among
citizens equally or according to individual need.

18. Capitalism
Economic system in which individuals or
corporations own land and means of production

19. Capitalist class (Bourgeoisie)
Consists of those who privately
own the means of production.
Working class (Proletariat)
The class that must sell its labor
power to the owners in order to
earn enough money to survive.

20. Major Contributions
HE PUT FORWARD THE THEORY OF ALIENATION CONCERNING
THE WORKER UNDER CAPITALISM
HIS CONCEPT OF CLASS STRUGGLE WAS HIGHLY INFLUENTIAL
KARL MARX CO-AUTHORED THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO
COMMUNIST MANIFESTO IS CONSIDERED ONE OF THE MOST
INFLUENTIAL POLITICAL MANUSCRIPTS EVER
HE WROTE THE GROUNDBREAKING WORK DAS KAPITAL
HE WAS A LEADING MEMBER OF THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL
Workingmen’s Association
HIS WORK IN ECONOMICS LAID THE FOUNDATION FOR
UNDERSTANDING LABOR AND ITS RELATION TO CAPITAL
KARL MARX IS CONSIDERED THE FOUNDER OF MODERN
SOCIOLOGY

21. The Specter of Communism
1917 Russian Revolution (led by V. Lenin)
1945 Chinese Revolution (led by Mao
Zedong)
1959 Cuban Revolution
(led by Fidel Castro &
Ernesto Che Guevara)

22. Those who used Marx
Vladimir Lenin Indicated that
the movement towards
communism could be
shortened in order to be
applicable in Russia

23. MAO TSE-TUNG
1893 - 1976