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Introduction to Marxism Class 2: Private property, class, womens subjugation and the state Class divided Communal Contradictions in early neolithic societies Early agriculture was hard work more labour needed, women's

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Introduction to Marxism

Class 2: Private property, class, women’s subjugation and the state

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Communal Class divided

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Contradictions in early neolithic societies

  • Early agriculture was hard

work – more labour needed, women's reproductive power exploited more

  • Competition for land and

water leads to conflict between groups of farming communities and with hunter-gatherer communities

  • Slaves acquired as by-

product of war

Neolithic figurines often of women pregnant or giving birth. Fertility goddesses prominent

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Changes in role and status of women Hunter-gatherer society Early farming society Later farming society

Women had equal status but separate roles, clans often matrilineal, women had fewer children Need for labour means women under pressure to reproduce more, clans begin to shift to patrilineal Need for labour and land leads to first wars, slaves. Social surplus allows for new divisions of labour and the emergence of class

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No concept of property Communal property Private property Development of private property

Communal property is first informally privatised then laws are created to justify and enforce new private property rights Competition between groups for land, water and labour excludes some groups from access to

  • these. Greater alienation from

nature. 'We don't own the land, the land

  • wns us'
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The state in Greek antiquity (slavery mode of production)

The base

Means of production, relations of production Law, religion, family, culture

Superstructure

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The feudal state

The base

Means of production, relations of production Law, religion, family, culture

Superstructure

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The capitalist state

The base

Means of production, relations of production Law, religion, family, culture

Superstructure

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Can the state be abolished?

“The state, therefore, has not existed from all eternity. There have been societies which have managed without it, which had no notion

  • f the state or state power. At a definite stage of economic

development, which necessarily involved the cleavage of society into classes, the state became a necessity because of this cleavage. We are now rapidly approaching a stage in the development of production at which the existence of these classes has not only ceased to be a necessity, but becomes a positive hindrance to

  • production. They will fall as inevitably as they once arose. The state

inevitably falls with them. The society which organises production anew on the basis of free and equal association of the producers will put the whole state machinery where it will then belong — into the museum of antiquities, next to the spinning wheel and the bronze axe.”

Engels, Origins of the Family, Private Property, and the State

  • Eliminate class divisions to

eliminate the state Will a privileged class gives up its privileges without a fight?

  • Is there such a thing as a

democratic state?

  • Is there such a thing as a

people's state?