HIS109Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Friedrich Engels, Wilhelm Liebknecht, August Bebel
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Socialism spoke directly to the working class as they were looking for an alternative to liberalism. People at the time did not call it socialism or socialists however: all professed socalists believe that within capitalist societies is the exploitation of other human beings. The other members hated him but they still commissioned him to write the communist. It is self-consciously revolutionary because it was a call for universal revolution on the part of all the workers of europe. It proclaimed the inevitable overthrow of the bourgeoisie by the proletariat: gave revolutions a xed vocabulary. It is an enormous book and is the closest marx ever came to a fully developed theory of scienti c socialism. Saw that history was being changed by economic forces. 5 stages of history according to marx: primitive communism, slavery, feudalism, capitalism, socialism (which has not yet been recognized) The social democratic workers" party of germany was the rst marxist party lead by.
