What should a person’s pay (income) depend on?

Objective: Analyze the effects of industrialization and urbanization on social and economic reform

Agenda:Warm UpReview- Factors of ProductionCommunist Manifesto

Homework: Begin looking over your notebook and handouts to prepare for the Unit 6 Assessment on Friday, November 21

Create a product you would like to sell. Think of the process it takes to create and sell this product from the raw material to putting it on a store shelf.

What is your: Land: Labor: Capital: Entrepreneur:

Finally, write a one paragraph summary of the activity. Think about what went right and what went wrong. Do you still think the same factor is the most

important?

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

While watching the brainpop answer the following questions in your notebook: What is communism? Why did the leaders start communism? What are some ideals of communism? What are some pitfalls of communism? What are some countries that have

communism?

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles…

(1) Freeman and slave, patrician and plebian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstruction of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes…

(2) We have seen above that the first step in the revolution by the working class is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class to win the battle of democracy.

(3) The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degree, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralize all instruments of production in the hands of the state, i.e., of the proletariat organized as the ruling class; and to increase the total productive forces as rapidly as possible…

(4) When, in the course of development, class distinctions have disappeared, and all production has been concentrated in the hands of a vast association of the whole nation, the public power will lose its political character. Political power, properly so called, is merely the organized power of one class for oppressing another…

(5) The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletariats have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.

(6) Proletariats of all countries, unite!

Read through the text and in the space provided to the right, answer the following question:

1) What are examples of class struggles that have existed in history?

Read through the text and in the space provided to the right, answer the following question:

2) What is the cause of struggle between the two classes?

Read through the text and in the space provided to the right, answer the following question:

3) What do Marx and Engles suggest the working do to overcome their oppressors?

Write down 5 main ideas from the Communist Manifesto

Who deserves the power: the working class or the wealthy class?

Does this change your opinion?

Read the handout and complete the activities after each reading

Complete the activities on your own sheet of paper