SOC 1105 Lecture Notes - The Communist Manifesto, The Proletariat, Proletariat
14 Nov 2012
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May 5, 1818 march 12, 1883 trier germany. Marxism is also a theory of revolution for how societies go through the process of change. Marxists believe that they and they alone have the process of historical change, as well the key to predicting the future. Communism is the riddle of history solved. marxists also believe that they and they alone have an empirical, scientific approach. Marx argued that your relationship to the means of production objectively determined your social class. Identified two great classes in capitalists society: the bourgeoisie (upper or ruling class) those people who owned the means of production, the proletariat (working class) Base: economic relationships the infrastructure or economic base of society. Superstructure: political/ideological relationships the superstructure of society. The aim is history of society as class society. A spectre is haunting europe the spectre of communism . The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles .
