PHL217H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Young Hegelians, The Communist Manifesto, Bourgeoisie
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Labor theory of value: alienation, exploitation, means of production, civil society, bourgeoisie, proletariat, division of labor, petty bourgeoise, views of france/england/germany. "all that is solid melts into air" social conditions keep changing and being transformed: bourgeoisie assimilates everythings into its own mode of production. Laborers are just another commodity, also subject to market forces: their tasks are becoming monotone and extremely simple, wages fall due to this. Lots of earlier classes are falling into the proletariat. The german ideology: preface: young hegelians thought people weren"t reaching true freedom due to ideas they still held onto, especially religious ones, people project all their virtuous qualities onto god and view themselves as useless scum (feuerbach) If we replace these ideas with right ones, existing reality will collapse: explanation of priority between ideas and history for young hegelians is still that ideas drive history, marx and engels will argue it"s the other way around.
