PHIL 2280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: The Communist Manifesto, German Idealism, Class Conflict
25 Oct 2018
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The communist manifesto is divided into four sections. A history of class struggles form the middles ages to the present class struggle in the modern capitalist society. The relationship between the communist movement and the working class is explained and defended against a variety of criticism; A justification of why marx and engels view is a better account of communism than other socialist theories and. The notion that there is only one reality, and this can be discovered as the embodiment of rationality in the world; The idea of history is the process of change from less to more perfect forms in all of reality; and. The assumption that human beings thoughts and behaviour is based on the spirit of the epoque, which is dependent upon the relation of production of socio/economic formation. Class struggle is the engine to the development of history.
