"Tenants" of Marxism?

[Isbjorn]

I'm new to the leftist ways and i'm trying to get the ideaolies straight , if possible. Could someone please tell me the main tenants of Marxism?

[the Left™]

Alienation-
Species Being
Labor
Nature
Other Persons

Exploitation

Sum Total of the Means of Production---> Superstructure

Class Struggle/Dialectical Materialism

[Commissar Rykov]

Do you mean tenets or tenant? If the latter this could be quite awkward.

[The Jay]

Join the beginners book group.

[Isbjorn]

Pardon me tenents.

[RGacky3]

Its hard to say, its an analysis of Capitalism.

[Sir Comradical]

Pardon me tenents.

Tenets my friend, tenets.

[Rooster]

Hmm, I would just say that Marxism is the analysis of capitalism. You could look up historical materialism and look into the class theory. You could look at this guy's videos for a brief run down of capitalism http://kapitalism101.wordpress.com/

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[Sir Comradical]

To say there are "tenets" assumes a checklist of independent ideas the sum of which results in Marxism. I'd say that Marxist conclusions follow logically from a materialist understanding of human history. The only question that matters after that is 'which side are you on in the class struggle?' If your answer is 'the working class', then hooray you've made it to the end.

[Isbjorn]

Tenets my friend, tenets.
Spelling never was my subject......

Thanks for the links and explanations comrades.

[Judicator]

To say there are "tenets" assumes a checklist of independent ideas the sum of which results in Marxism. I'd say that Marxist conclusions follow logically from a materialist understanding of human history. The only question that matters after that is 'which side are you on in the class struggle?' If your answer is 'the working class', then hooray you've made it to the end.

You know who else thinks you can derive future human behavior from logic? Austrian economists :lol:

[Rusty Shackleford]

Historical Materialism
Labor Theory of Value
Anti-utopianism

This would be a good start. Socialism: Utopian & Scientific (http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/index.htm)