1. MARXISM Ronald F. White, Ph.D. Professor of Philosopher

2. Introduction Idealism-Materialism –Ideas –Matter Nature and Significance of Work Collectivism-Individualism Human History –Determinism –Indeterminism –Progressivism Social Classes Politics-Economics

3. Idealism v. Realism Idealism –Plato –Christianity –Hegel Dialectical Idealism –Thesis, Antithesis, Progress Realism –Thrasymachus –Machiavelli –Thomas Hobbes

4. The Philosophy of Work Plato: Producers, Military, Leaders –Philosophy as Leisure Aristotle –Intellectual Work –Political Work –Craft Work Technology and Work

5. Collectivism V. Individualism Collectivism –Plato –Hegel- Individualism –Hobbes –John Locke –Adam Smith –F.A. Hayek

6. Human History

7. Social Classes

8. The Relationship Between Politics and Economics

9. Worldly Philosophers Adam Smith Marx

10. Adam Smith Private Property (John Locke) Rationality Atomic Self Interest Problem of Scarcity Competition Market Capitalism –Buyers and Sellers –Property and Persons –Supply and Demand –Value –Invisible Hand

11. MARXISM Historicism Materialism Dialectic –Dialectical Idealism –Dialectical Materialism Superstructure v. substructure Capital Law of Surplus Value Class Struggle –Owners of means of production v. workers Alienation of Labor Revolution