POLI 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: The Communist Manifesto, University Of Bonn, Holy Alliance
6 Apr 2016
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Had a jewish father who converted to christianity (under state pressure) However, he thinks history is not driven by contradiction in ideas, but in material conditions. Becomes a communist after association with engels. Kicked out for speaking in favour of king of prussia in france. Everywhere he goes after that, he gets kicked out for his radicalism. Written in a time of economic + environment + political upheaval. Beginning quote: a spectre is haunting europe -the spectre of. All the powers of old europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: pope and czar, metternich and guizot, Reference to state and to religious authority: indicates that. Communism is a challenge to all grand scale social structures. History if driven by the haves and have nots. Patrician and plebian, lord and serf, guild- master and journeyman, in a word oppressor and oppressed . History unfolds through changes in material conditions.
