HIS109Y1 Lecture Notes - Utopian Socialism, Flora Tristan, Class Conflict
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Humans are naturally good that can"t come through in a system of self-interest, but rather in cooperation. Freely chose to set up system where workers are treated better. We need state to be involved, govt assistance. Competition was main source of conflict, cut off middle class and called for state owned/funded workshops. Argued for absolute equality (gender equality) was the only way for the working class to be truly free. With friedrich engels, manifesto of the communist party. Came from middle-class, has phd in philosophy, philosophy professor, radical journalist, editor of newspaper. He goes to paris, where he is acquainted to a socialist literation and became friends with engels. In brussels he developed the materialist conception of history . The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles . Everything as we know it is a product of class struggle.