Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Differential ground rent and absolute ground rent are concepts used by Karl Marx [1] in the third volume of Das Kapital [2] to explain how the capitalist mode of production would operate in agricultural production, [3] under the condition where most agricultural land was owned by a social class of land-owners [4] who could obtain rent income from farm production. [5]
Uneven and combined development, unequal and combined development, or uneven development is a concept in Marxian political economy [1] intended to describe dynamics of human history involving the interaction of capitalist laws of motion and starting world market conditions whose national units are highly heterogeneous.
Classical Marxism is the body of economic, philosophical, and sociological theories expounded by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in their works, as contrasted with orthodox Marxism, Marxism–Leninism, and autonomist Marxism which emerged after their deaths. [1]
Marx and Engels wrote a new preface for the 1882 Russian edition, translated by Georgi Plekhanov in Geneva. In it they wondered if Russia could directly become a communist society, or if she would become capitalist first like other European countries. After Marx's death in 1883, Engels provided the prefaces for five editions between 1888 and 1893.
Marx's ideas and their subsequent development, collectively known as Marxism, have had enormous influence on modern intellectual, economic and political history. Born in Trier in the Kingdom of Prussia, Marx studied at the universities of Bonn, Berlin, and Jena, and received a doctorate in philosophy from the latter in 1841.
In Marxist theory and Marxian economics, the immiseration thesis, also referred to as emiseration thesis, is derived from Karl Marx's analysis of economic development in capitalism, implying that the nature of capitalist production stabilizes real wages, reducing wage growth relative to total value creation in the economy. Even if real wages ...
The ideologues of Marxism (K. Marx, F. Engels, V. I. Lenin) link the origin of the state to the emergence of private property in society and the formation of two opposing groups — classes. The state is created by one class (owners, exploiters) for governance, increasing their own well-being, and suppressing another class (the oppressed class ...
Marx critiques the capitalist mode of production, highlighting its inherent contradictions and tendency toward crises. He predicts that these contradictions will eventually lead to the overthrow of capitalism by the proletariat, paving the way for a classless, communist society. The work is foundational for Marxist theory and socialist movements.