Karl Marx:

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Innovative Introduction: Fictive Narrative, Primary Texts, and Responsive Writing. Boulder, CO: Westview, 2010. Print.

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A Game of Chess in Paris

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Pro and Con

Fictive- Narrative Philosophy

Pro: Chess game gave Marx some new ideas on power of social class through the chess pieces

Con: Marx's inability to take these new ideas of manipulating the powerful pieces to win the game and realizing the pieces are not all equal

- Fictive- Narrative Philosophy tells a story that makes a claim that is expressed on one of three levels

- This story has a level three claim in which the claim lies hidden within the dominant story

- Social Class: The chess pieces should all be equal and individual

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Karl Marx

The Seven Elements

- German philosopher

- Key concept: Historical materialism

- social systems flourish or flounder according to their impact upon human productive power

1.) A story with logically plotted sequences

A story of two guys playing chess and talking about education, philosophy, and the human spirit

2.) three - dimensional characters - that is, real people with real problems

All the details of the characters (what they were wearing, what they looked like), and Engel's father and how his father did not want him to work in a factory but go to school to get an education

Summary of the Story

Social Class Prevalent Today?

"This story captures a significant moment in the life of Karl Marx: when he puts aside his philosophical idealism in favor of Engels's more pragmatic political approach. The two really did meet on or about this time in the Café de la Régence." (Boylan 190) This café really had chess tables for people to play on. Karl Marx meet his friend Fredrich Engels at this café and played a game of chess with him. During this game of chess they talked about philosophy and jobs/ job satisfaction. In the end Marx lost because he viewed all the chess pieces as having equal value and had lost both his king and queen.

You see it today in the Prison System

- people in prison tend to be of a lower social class

How does low social class affect prisoners?

- over loaded public defenders

- lack of education

- low paying jobs

- lack of healthcare

- no one to help people with mental health care so people self treat themselves with harmful substances such as drugs and alcohol

3.) Sensuous description, or a complete world to which readers can imaginatively respond

You can imagine you are in the french restaurant

4.) Dialogue with the authenticity of real speech

Real dialog going on - they call each other by their first names, have a history, and call tell that they are friends

5.) A strong narrative voice

Both of them talking

6.) Rhythm, musicality, and control of the cadences in their fiction

How they were going back and forth between talking and the chess game - the chess game was always there

7.) originality in theme and execution

The way this conversation occurred using the restaurant and the chess game was original

Questions?

Do you believe that social classes exist in different cultures and what determines these classes?

Do you believe that societies with no social classes are successful?