K Marx Discussion Group Questions
Marx Discussion Group Questions
Answer the following questions to the best of your ability and understanding of the material.
Dialectical Method:
- In your own words summarize the elements of the dialectical method.
Human Potential:
- What seem to be the crucial elements for Marx in terms of human nature or human potential?
Labor and Alienation:
- Summarize in your own words Marx’s argument about the relation between labor and human nature?
- Why does Marx argue labor and human nature are perverted by capitalism? How is this relationship perverted?
Structures of Capitalist Society
- Summarize capitalism as explained in the text.
- What is a commodity? How does it differ from other objects?
- What is meant by the fetishism of commodities? Is the fetishism of commodities still a secret?
- How does Marx view exploitation? What are the important terms to understand as it relates to exploitation?
- What is meant by the materialist conception of history?c
