Year 12 IB Extended Essays 2017

David McGovern

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon’s Philosophy of Poverty and Karl Marx’s Poverty of Philosophy in the digital era

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IB Diploma - November 2017

Field:

Political Philosophy

Topic:

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon’s Philosophy of Poverty (1847) and Karl Marx’s Poverty of Philosophy (1847) in the digital era

Question:

To what extent is Marx’s understanding of the labour-value exchange superseded by Proudhon’s competing philosophy, given the dynamics of the digital age? A comparative analysis of the labour, value and machinery theories of Marx and Proudhon against a range of case studies from the digital age.

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