SOC101Y1 Lecture : Political Sociology
Document Summary
Democratic class struggle (voting: communist manifesto, post ww2 class conflict and compromise (they got it through voting rather than revolution, which is what marx thought would happen, power resources theory. Arguments for a decline in class politics. One of the most influential manuscripts ever written. The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles (fight over resources, however they are distributed) Some of these things have been done (and without the threat of revolution; through democratic means) Class conflict and alliances the post ww2 period. In western democracies, class conflict has never taken the form projected by the communist. Manifesto: compromise, rather than war, has been the norm. Working class power hit a peak after ww2 into the 1950s. Memories of inequality of 1930s and sacrifices of ww2. Increased desire for greater equality and harmony among all classes. Interest of the working class were increasingly seen as in the general.
