A Teoria de Karl Marx

These flashcards cover key vocabulary and concepts related to Karl Marx's theories, including dialectical materialism, class struggle, and the labor theory of value.

Karl Marx

Influential philosopher and economist born in 1818 in Trier, Germany, who analyzed capitalism and developed theories on class struggle, materialism, and dialectics.

Dialectical Materialism

Marx's method of analyzing society based on material conditions and class relations rather than ideas.

Alienation

Marx's concept describing how workers become disconnected from the products of their labor and their own human potential.

Class Struggle

The conflict between different classes in society, central to Marx's theory of social development.

Labor Theory of Value

The economic theory that the value of a product is determined by the labor required for its production.

Surplus Value

The difference between the value produced by labor and the actual wage paid to the workers, which is appropriated by capitalists as profit.

Mode of Production

The varied ways that human labor is organized to produce goods, including the means of production and social relations.

Commodity Fetishism

The perception of social relationships that results from the exchange of commodities, leading to the commodification of human relationships.

Base and Superstructure

A Marxist theory that the economic base (mode of production) shapes the ideological superstructure (culture, politics, law).

Revolution

A fundamental change in political power or organizational structures, often occurring when social forces clash due to contradictions in the mode of production.