1) According to Marx, what is the most fundamental human activity?
 
 
 
 

2) Zeitlin says Marx was not a methodological realist. What does he mean? Who was a methodological realist?
 
 
 
 
 
 

3) For Marx, what was the most essential relationship in the capitalist mode of production?
 
 
 
 
 

4) What was Marx’s method? What did he have to do to construct it?
 
 
 
 

5) What is “use value”?
 

6)    What is “exchange value”?
 
 

7)   What is a “commodity”?
 
 

8)   In what sense are laborers in capitalism “free”?
 
 
 

9)   What does it mean to say that the worker is “separated from his means of subsistance”?
 
 
 

10)  Marx believed the enclosures between the 16th and 18th centuries were central in the transformation from feudalism to capitalism in England. Why?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

11) What is “labor-power”?
 
 

12) What is “labor”?
 

13)  What is “the theory of surplus-value”?
 
 
 
 

14)  How is “manufacture” different than  handicrafts?
 
 
 
 
 

15) According to Marx, why was the introduction of machines so important in the development of capitalism?
 
 
 

16)  What was the invention that provided the breakthrough allowing production to take place anywhere?
 
 
 

17)   What were the effects of machinery on the worker?
 
 
 
 
 
 

18) Give two examples of “the growth of productive forces.”