SOCB42H3 Lecture 10: Lecture 10
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Understand economic basis for marx"s belief that capitalism was doomed to fall apart and give way to communism. Understand the central importance of private property in his vision of history, and how it made him believe that proletariat was the bearer of a social project radically different from any other class project in history. Apply marx"s dialectic understanding of social structure and agency on his project of communist revolution. Marx, karl and friedrich engels (2004, 1848) the communist manifesto, london: Questions to guide the reading/to think about ahead of time for students. Book review due at the beginning of class. We continue our discussion of political economy of capitalism and connect it with. Marx"s vision of the future: of proletarian revolution and communist society. You will see that, at the time the manifesto was written, its authors believed the revolution to be inevitable and imminent. Only later did marx realize the effectiveness of bourgeois strategies of social conciliation.
