Marx & More

1. Marx & More Connecting Socialism, Nationalism and Anti-Semitism

2. A Few Big Connections • Marxism & The Socialism Movement • Connecting Nationalism and the Rise of Anti-Semitism The Agenda

3. The Second Industrial Revolution • Rise of huge international capital • Rise of Germany and U.S. to challenge Great Britain • European agriculture fades • Rise of Mass Consumption and Mass Leisure • Decline of Free Trade • Bismark starts in 1878 Three Big Connections

4. Communist Manifesto (1848) • All history is class struggle • Persuasive analysis of bourgeoisie age Marx and History

5. Social life depends on economic life • Division of labor is alienating • The victory of the Proletariat Marx & The Proletariat

6. “Modern socialism originated from an 18th-century intellectual and working class political movement that criticized the effects of industrialization and private property on society. In the early 19th-century, "socialism" referred to any concern for the social problems of capitalism irrespective of the solutions to those problems. However, by the late 19th-century, "socialism" had come to signify opposition to capitalism and advocacy for an alternative system based on some form of social ownership.Marxists expanded further on this, attributing scientific assessment and democratic planning as critical elements of socialism.” Socialism

7. Definition changes over time • The big question over purity vs. gradual improvement Socialism

8. Georg von Schonerer – Austrian poltician • First political antisemite • Lueger • Champions democracy against liberalism Anti-Semitism

9. Herzl as a Jewish nationalistic response anti-semitic attacks Herzl & Zionism