SOCI 300 Lecture 1: Later Marx vs early marx.docx
27 Apr 2015
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Signposts in readings discussion of the army whose side will they choose; peasants are simpler people have ability to be antirevolutionary; looked at how they are different from working class; looks at structure of societies and realizes communism is impossible without being preceded by bourgeoisie and capitalism because they create enough alienation, disappointment and exploitation and technological advances that allow for incredible increases in technology clear away feudalism bourgeoisie opened up political arena france not going to be site of revolution because they don"t have an industrial class (bourgeois class) finance aristocracy not good for revolution because doesn"t create the amount of alienation, technology, etc. bourgeoisie can only exist by revolutionizing the means of production (increase productivity or efficiency) alienated by own technology working class won"t have to learn to change their consciousness, it will be imposed upon them by the absurdity of this economic system.
