PHILOS 1B03 Chapter Notes - Chapter MARX: Winnipeg General Strike, Proletariat, Class Consciousness
24 Nov 2016
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Case study - the winnipeg general strike (marx) Marx believed that class antagonisms and struggles would intensify in the newly industrializing societies and ultimately prepare the ground for communist revolution. Also speculated that the cyclical crises of capitalism would generate an increase in trade activity and lead to the radicalization of the proletariat. While the rise of consumerist society has made social classes seem less defined within industrialized countries today, there are times in canada"s recent past where explicit class struggles was very much evident in the population. The winnipeg general strike (1919) is the largest general strike to ever take place in. Canada: possibly north america as well, dramatic example of class struggles. People of working class in winnipeg faced war-induced inflation and the loss of purchasing power. In the days that followed this, more tradespeople joined in and the issue quickly became the right of workers to engage in bargaining and strike actions.
