What are the teachings of marxism?

Question: What are the teachings of marxism!?

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Marx said he discovered a scientific approach to history, which for one thing completely eliminated religion as a formative agent - he saw all religions as parasitic organisms preying upon the superstitions of the ignorant!. He also introduced the theory of class consciousness and class conflict, and believed (wrongly) that every advance of the lower classes came about as a result of armed rebellion!.
Marx's critique of the capitalism of the latter half of the 19th century was right on!. This capitalism supplied no safety equipment for workers, paid hard working miners extremely little (mining was a lucrative vocation in the Middle Ages), forced people to work in dirty, unsanitary, very noisy environments, provided nothing in the way of health care or pensions, and fought the attempts of workers to organize labor with guns, clubs, militias and here in the US even National Guard troops!. It took many years of agitation to make employers stop hiring children under 14, who worked the same 12 hour days 5 days a week and one 8 hour day on Saturdays at lower wages, with no training about dangerous machinery!. Nor did employers compensate workers who were injured on the job, no matter how long they had worked for the company!. In other words, this capitalism was totally ruthless!.
I could easily understand it if Marx hated the rich, but he directed all his vitriol at the bourgeoisie, who were the middle classes (doctors, lawyers, successful small businessmen, professors, etc!.)!. He did this because he decided that as a class they were traitors to the proletarians (they had different interests in life and were afraid of a repeat of the French Revolution)!. In addition Marx advocated violence of any nature to destabilize the capitalists and the state!.
He believed that Socialism (or Communism, they weren't very distinct back then) would produce economic justice, people would be free to make as much art and literature as they wanted, people would have plenty of vacation time, old age pensions, and so on!. Engels (his partner) did advocate equal rights for women!.
The Russian Revolution took these ideas and mangled them!.
Other countries, like Sweden (Swedes have a higher standard of living than we do) developed a mixed economy that works very well!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

You mean "What are the teachings of Marx!?" 'Marxism' is a teaching of Marx!.

One of Marx's theories was the "Alienation of Labour" (Labor, if you're using American spelling)!.

My favourite is his theory of "Surplus Value"!. By way of example this might be explained along these lines!. Say you work in McDonalds!. I don't know what the hourly rate is, but just for argument's sake say it's $8!.00 an hour!. If at the beginning of your shift you sell $50!.00 of hamburgers you can't just say to the boss "I've paid for my own labour this hour, I'm having the rest of the hour off"!. They make you work more than what it costs to run the expense of the business, including paying for you!. You're working all this extra labour!.

Another example, you work as the check-out girl in a supermarket!. The boss says "I'll give an extra $30!.00 to the girl who has the most 'through-put' this day"!. You and all your colleagues work extra hard but at the end of the day, despite all your combined efforts only one girl gets the extra money, meaning all the others put in free extra labour!.

OR, as Marx put it
"If the exchange-value of a product equals the labour-time contained in the product, then the exchange-value of a working day is equal to the product it yields, in other words, wages must be equal to the product of labour!. [20] But in fact the opposite is true!. Ergo, this objection amounts to the problem, -- how does production on the basis of exchange-value solely determined by labour-time lead to the result that the exchange-value of labour is less than the exchange-value of its product!? This problem is solved in our analysis of capital!."
http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/Surplus_val!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

the need for the proletariat to win against the bourgeois
the aim for a classless society through the inevitable armed revolution
abolition of the bourgeois family pattern
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