HST 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: The Communist Manifesto, Primitive Communism, Dialectical Materialism
23 Mar 2017
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Marx influenced by hegel"s views of historical movement. All history is propelled by material changes, economical changes, and humans need to adapt societies to these changes. Becomes involved in radical politics, writes for a newspaper* influenced french socialists (s. simone, etc), rejects socialism interested in socialism, history (key moments i. e. : french revo. ) Political writings lead to his expulsion from paris. Belgium involved in trade unions (specifically) german workers" union in. Goes to london conference w/ engels where the idea is formed to create new organization: M & e write the manifesto of the icl (the communist manifesto), org. "s beliefs and why people should join. Engels financially supported him in some ways impoverished bc most days he studied/wrote. 19c: science was the new religion and influences other disciplines i. e. sociology, psychology, & history like science, history has patterns and laws in its unfolding. Believed in studying history and figuring out its patterns/laws in order to understand past/present/future.
