SOCI 330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: The Communist Manifesto, Proletariat, Union State
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Marks can not have a theory of politics because he thinks only in the economic realm. Two different images of a revolution in marks" work. Collapse of a crisis - under consumption or over production. Objective as the proletariat is forced into doing it by production. Slightly different image of work - agency involved, working class improves in revolutionary conquest (practice makes perfect) Agency, insurrection - where things come from below. There will be more and more concentration between two great classes and nobody else. Intellectuals can only join in the fight for a new world, they can not do it themselves. Utopian socialists (the intellectuals) they need the working class which is large enough to do it. He is in a fundamental sense a democrat (bottom-up theory) versus lenin who thinks he is needed. Marks the workers will do it by themselves . In the communist manifesto the future, the private property will wither away.
