ANT207H5 Lecture 1: lec 1
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Parents were jewish but became protestant to make is life easier. Worked as a journalist at the rheinische zeitung in cologne. Co-editor of a radical leftist parisian newspaper; the newspaper was eventually shut down by the government. I(cid:374) 1864 (cid:271)e(cid:272)a(cid:373)e leader of the first i(cid:374)ter(cid:374)atio(cid:374)al work(cid:373)e(cid:374)"s asso(cid:272)iatio(cid:374) Prussian philosopher, marx used his views on history. Each thesis as an antithesis; the new synthesis is a result of this fight between the anti and thesis, it is believed that we are always progression; but also history repeats itself --- Engles and marx believed what moves history is the material culture so this is know as materialism vs idealism. Where as engles and marx believed history has an end; Material conditions of production and the social relations they enable; ordinary people make history young hegelian -hegel idea that the purpose and promise of history was the total negation of everything, freedom.
