Marx and Hegel Oral Exam

Please explain Hegel’s Dialectic

You get an idea and an opposing, and it leads you to a perfect resolution. You have a thesis (starting idea), and you have a Antithesis (Opposing idea), and it should lead to a synthesis (perfect resolution that overcomes the conflict).

Karl Marx believes the history of all societies can be described as what?

Class Struggle

What are the two classes that Marx believes society is currently in? Please describe both.

Bourgeoisie (the rich business owners) and Proletariat (working middle class).

Why does capitalism negatively affect the fulfillment one used to receive from work?

Because you are easily replaceable because what you're doing has little to no impact.

Why does Marx want to abolish private property, family, nationality, and religion?

He wants to abolish private property because people use that as a way to distinguish class. He wants to abolish family because it’s an inner circle who’s not bought into communism plus it also breaks inheritance, Abolishing nationality ends national divisions amongst people, lastly, he wants to abolish religion because Marx wanted people to focus on their life now and it gave people a false sense of hope that people would have a better life in the after life.