SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Jenny Von Westphalen, The Communist Manifesto, Proletariat

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Liam Kilmurray

Document Summary

This history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. In the other words, everything you know is wrong! According to marx, we think and believe the way we do because we are products of the mode of production. Born 1818 in tier, jewish ancestry, studied philosophy and economics in berlin. Communist manifesto: the proletariat alone is a really revolutionary class. The proletariat movement is the self conscious, independent movement of the immense majority. A spectre is haunting europe the spectre of communism. Capitalism will ultimately collapse under the weight of its contradictions. Communism will make ownership communal make labor communal, and thus do away with private property. Marx argued that your relationship to the means of production objectively determined you social class. Identified two great classes in capitalist society: 1. Das kapital (capital) a critical analysis of capitalist production, vol. Basic contradiction between: the forces of production (the things that are required to produce commodities) and.