HIST 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Dialectical Materialism, For Marx, Leninism
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The french revolution paved the way to a new society. 1911 half the population engaged in manufacturing. Working class worked 16 hours a day. Division of labour is the key to manufacturing for marx and smith. No one person creates a single product (nobody can say i built a car ) Marx is concerned about workers having to do the same thing for 16 hours. Smith: workers can be replaced by machines: working class people stuck in monotonous and mechanized jobs. With pay per hour introduced, the drive to create more products in reduced. Manchester: ii: lots of overcrowding, inadequate water, sewage spewing through the streets, socialism starts with this horror. Only way to fix it was a revolution; start from scratch. Born a jew: both parents were rabbis, converted to protestantism, however, he honoured his jewish heritage, became an atheist, but still held onto his judaeo-christian heritage. His christian values were hard to extricate: hegelianism and dialectical materialism .
