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RESPONSES TO INDUSTRIALIZATION: The “isms”

Explore the ideologies of capitalism, socialism, and Marxism and their impact on population growth, wages, and social classes. Understand the implications of these ideas on society and the struggle between the ruling class and the working class.

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RESPONSES TO INDUSTRIALIZATION: The “isms”

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  1. RESPONSES TO INDUSTRIALIZATION:The “isms”

  2. CAPITALISM SOCIALISM Adam Smith Thomas Malthus David Ricardo Karl Marx Friedrich Engels SCIENTIFIC SOCIALISM (MARXISM)

  3. THOMAS MALTHUS AND POPULATION

  4. MALTHUS’S THEORY STARVATION! Food supply increases arithmetically Population increases geometrically

  5. MALTHUS’ CHECKS ON POPULATION GROWTH • POSITIVE CHECKS • WAR • FAMINE • DISEASE • NEGATIVE CHECKS • LATE MARRIAGES • CELIBACY/ RESTRAINT • CONTRACEPTION Growth of population cannot be stopped without “misery or vice”!

  6. RICARDO AND THE IRON LAW OF WAGES

  7. RICARDO’S CYCLE Population Increase • GOOD TIMES • Higher Wages • BAD TIMES • Lower Wages Population Decline THE IRON LAW OF WAGES

  8. IMPLICATIONS OF MALTHUS & RICARDO’S IDEAS? • Low wages • Suffering among workers • Trying to help poor people would only HURT them long-term: Social Darwinism, or the idea that the “fittest” people should control the world,develops

  9. “Philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.” - Karl Marx

  10. Communism: MARXISM Karl Marx Friedrich Engels 1820-1895 1818-1883

  11. Karl Marx said: History is a series of conflicts between classes that control means of production (owners) and those which do not (wage-laborers). vs.

  12. How does the ruling class keep control? Society (government, religion, moral values) are ALL designed to support the interests of the dominant economic class. Religion “is the opiate of the masses.”

  13. COMMUNISM: MARXISM SLAVE EMPIRES CAPITALISM FEUDALISM Believed that history is moving through a series of stages …

  14. PROLETARIAT CAPITALISM COMMUNISM: MARXISM Victory of Bourgeoisie has set up a new conflict: vs.

  15. COMMUNISM: Marxism Increased suffering among Proletariat would INEVITABLY lead them to revolt against the Bourgeoisie.

  16. Uh-Oh THE PROLETARIAT THE BOURGEOISIE

  17. COMMUNISM: Marxism Workers would create a society without social classes where no one had any private property. From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

  18. THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO (1848) “The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!”

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