POLI 1F90 Lecture Notes - The Communist Manifesto, Secularism, Utopia
19 Nov 2013
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Modernity spawned a variety of ideological schools/families. With the demise of feudalism, people were free to ponder and publish their thoughts. Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. Comes out of socialist critique of liberal individualism, competition and self- Read in economics, sociology, philosophy, political science. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being but their social being determines their consciousness . Meets frederick engels in france and writes the communist manifesto in 1848. Engels conditions of the working classes in england (1845) Read upton sinclair"s the jungle (1906) for picture of pre-welfare state society. Contradictory social forces collide and produce new synthesis. From capital: the ultimate aim of this work is to lay bare the economic law of motion of modern society . Multiple causes of failure: its hard to deliver utopia. Unperformed in science, technology, economics, agricultural production.
