POLSCI 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: The Proletariat, Feudalism, Economic Determinism
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Karl marx: journalist philosopher leader of communist league most in uential political theorist of the 20th century envisioned communism but inspired socialism. Marx and illusion: must rip away the illusions that sustained feudalisms and class di erences and inhibited freedom promises us a society without illusions: no coercion. The bourgeoisie: diverse group pg 479: small trades people, peasants, shop owners, etc. are part of the bourgeoisie, but the lower parts of it, and will eventually fall out of it. Marx refers to a speci c layer" of the bourgeoisie. Marx - the bourgeoisie= owners of the means of production". To religious faith and chivalry: substituted it with self-interest. To feudal society: (476) stripped are of authority and superiority and made everyone on the same playing eld as wage- laborers. To social relations: based on monetary relations, no longer based on love, devotion, etc. its all based no contracts for service. To tradition: (pg 476) done away with it and reinvented.
