POL 307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Friedrich Engels, Eduard Bernstein, Scientific Socialism

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 307
• Professor: Sylvia Thompson

Document Summary

Vanguard of the proletariat- leaders who will not start a revolution but will inform and enlighten the population. Marx and engels see themselves a part of. Point out how oppressed and different they are from the elite. Every society is built on a foundation (economic system) which creates a social/political system. Sketchy in type of political system they see in the future. Purpose: assuming there is enormous changes after revolution occurs to move towards perfect system they anticipate. Reorganize and change things from what they are to what they will be in future. Educate the few people who did not already have class consciousness and to get them accept socialism. Most people think a dictatorship by the proletariat is a democracy. Could also be dictatorship by the proletariat, not democratic. State will wither away and die, no more need for a government. Thought they were in 4th era of human existence, and was moving towards 5th.