POL S101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: The Communist Manifesto, Industrial Revolution, Marxism
12 Jul 2018
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Trotsky took upon and put in place marxism, worked with stalin. reminds of importance of marx and the unstable history of capitalism. Marx: production and power - one of rst critical voices to talk about power and production and the organization of the economy. Communist manifesto political document at extreme 1848 upheaval, revolution all the capitals of europe under pressure from oppressed groups. Berlin, paris - less than 2% of the population owned land. context of marx"s writing impressed/depressed by uneven distribution of property. Most struck by the actual conditions that struck the workers during the time of the industrial revolution. child labour, constant way of early factors risking the life of those workers. Scienti c analysis and understanding of capitalism in order to change it and overthrow it, replace with a communist society. Volume ii - capital, compares owners to vampires, living off the hard labour and.
