BELL WORK1)TAKE THE TEXT ON THE BACK TABLE

2)READ AND ANNOTATE

3)ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS BELOW AS A TABLE ON THE WHITE BOARD:

1) What is the main idea of the passage?

2) When and where do you think this was written?

OBJECTIVESI will be able to use the APPARTS method when reading documents

I will be able to describe the Marxist theory of history

KARL MARX

- 1818-1883

- German

- Communist Manifesto – 1848

- Friedrick Engels

APPARTSAuthor – describe who it is

Place and time – what is going on at this time

Prior knowledge – what do you know already

Audience – who was this for?

Reason – why was it made?

The main idea

Significance – why is this important?

MARXISMTheory of history:

- Society progresses through class struggle

- The bourgeoisie vs. the proletariat

MARXISMSix Stages of History

- Identify which stage it is- Identify the characteristics of the stage- Describe how it functions within society- Explain how it ends- Use white board to outline your thoughts

STAGE 1: PRIMITIVE COMMUNISM

- Shared property

- Hunting and Gathering

- Proto Democracy

- Ends with development of private property

STAGE 2: SLAVE SOCIETY

- Classes

- State-ism

- Agriculture

- Democracy and Authoritarianism

- Private Property

- Ends when it exhausts itself

STAGE 3: FEUDALISM

- Aristocracy

- Theocracy

- Hereditary Classes

- Nation-State

- Ends with social revolution

STAGE 4: CAPITALISM

- Market Economy

- Private Property

- Parliamentary democracy

- Wages

- Warfare

- Financial Institutions

- Monopolistic tendencies

- Ends when the working class finds it “consciousness” and rises against the bourgeoisie

STAGE 5: SOCIALISM

- Decentralized planned economy

- Common Property

- Council Democracy

- Labor Vouchers

- Ends when capitalism is completely destroyed

STAGE 6: COMMUNISM

- Statelessness- Classlessness- Property-lessness - History can begin!

HOMEWORKDirections: Answer the following questions with at least FIVE SENTENCES per answer.

1) Do you think this theory is realistic? Why or why not?

2) What stage is America in? Do you think it will ‘progress’ to the next stage? Why or why not?