Review this week’s Marx reading and then read the posted notes on capitalism and

Review this week’s Marx reading and then read the posted notes on capitalism and democracy. Write a properly documented paper, approximately 12-15 pages in length, to answer the following questions: What are Karl Marx’s main criticisms of Capitalism? Explain Marx’s definition of democracy. What changes would need to take place for a Marxist democracy to come into being? Were Marx’s criticisms correct? What features of modern democratic capitalism might contradict Marx’s arguments? Has democracy been able to adapt enough to preclude these criticisms? Required reading of Marx: Classics of Moral and Political Theory by: Michael L. Morgan: Karl Marx, Alienated Labour and the Communist Manifesto Western Political Thought: From Socrates to the Age of Ideology: Chapter 14 Other readings: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/marx/ http://www.marxists.org/glossary/frame.htm http://www.philosophypages.com/ph/marx.htm http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/anticom-network.html