HIS109Y1 Lecture Notes - Reformism, Class Conflict, Revolutionary Socialism
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W/ friedrich engels, manifesto of the communist party (1848) Marx came from a middle class family in western germany, descended from a long line of rabbis, but his father had converted to protestantism. Had a lot of ideas thinking about the philosophy of hegel. Academic career fell apart b/c of his reputation of a critic of censorship. 1842: became editor of a newspaper founded by a liberal businessman. He & his wife began a lifelong exile from germany. Went to paris & became better acquainted w/ socialist literature & met engels. Prussians pressured the fr. gov"t to expel him from paris. 1843: he resigned in effort to keep the paper afloat. You can"t understand law & politics in society by looking at them in society or by looking at how the human mind develops, these structures came from the material constructions of life.
