SOC201H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: The Communist Manifesto, Cotton Gin, Proletariat
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In final stage of the class struggle, a small section of ruling class joins the revolutionary class (p. 481) t. Paper ideas tocqueville & status, marx & class, marxist viewpoint and apply it to a contemporary phenomenon. 1 part state, authoritarian: world which is locked but also given birth to dynamic change, shell will split apart w/ revolution communist manifesto. Slow change: persistence of monarchies, europe at the time marx and engels wrote, monarchs rules, elsewhere in europe, monarchs were absolutist = not accountable to parliament, In western europe, monarch worked w/ parliament, somewhat check on power courts, public opinion: persistence of old classes, aristocracy (nobles, dukes) still important, wealth based on land, not capitalist who invested in factories or commerce. In britain, aristocracy was wealthiest class: across europe most people were still peasants. International commerce: b/t 1780 and 1840s, grow by factor of 4.
