MAIN
COURSE
CONTENTS
PAGE
Module 1 Karl Marx Dialectics…………………. 1
Unit 1 Laws of Transformation of Quantity
to Quality……………………………….. 1
Unit 2 Law of Unity and Conflict of
Opposites……………………………….. 6
Unit 3 Law of Negation of Negation………….. 10
Unit 4 Historical Materialism………………….. 13
Unit 5 Historical Epochs………………………. 18
Module 2
Marxism and the Meaning of
Ideology………………………………… 21
Unit 1 Alienation……………………………….. 21
Unit 2 Ideology and False Consciousness……… 26
Unit 3 Base and Superstructure…………………. 30
Unit 4 State Power and the Superstructure……… 34
Unit 5 Vanguard Party/Proletarian Revolution…. 37
Module 3
Understanding the Meaning of
Socialism…………………………………. 43
Unit 1 Exploitation and Oppression…………….. 43
Unit 2 Utopian Socialism……………………….. 50
Unit 3 Marx Scientific Socialism………………… 56
Unit 4 Class
(A Class in Itself to a Class for Itself)…….. 60
Unit 5 Socialist Theory and Working Class
Movement………………………………… 65
Module 4 Marxist Political Economy……………... 71
Unit 1 Capitalist Economy……………………….. 71
Unit 2 Mode of Production and Relations of
Production…………………………………. 76
Unit 3 Marx Theories of Value- Commoditisation,
Reification, Labor Power, Use and
Exchange Value, Surplus Value and
Capitalist Primitive Accumulations…………. 79