POLS 3500 Lecture 3: The Rise and Fall of Communism Lecture Notes 1-3
2 Oct 2017
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Formation of the capitalist classes (the bourgeoisie - literally, the word means the city dwellers ): first, merchants and bankers, later, industrialists. Formation of the working classes: people who don"t own productive property and need to be hired by capitalists to earn their living. Expansion of international trade and conquest of colonies. New technologies which made human labour increasingly productive. The spread of new ideas social change, progress, democracy, revolution. Europe, a group of german radical democrats led by journalist karl. Marx and industrialist friedrich engels founded the league of communists : marxism represented a synthesis of three bodies of european thought: Socialist, and labour parties representing the interests of the working classes. In the 20th century, communist regimes were established in 27 countries. A regional-civilizational perspective: why was it eastern europe, starting with russia, that became the stage of the.
