POL SCI 6C Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Class Consciousness, Bourgeoisie, Milgram Experiment
5 Aug 2016
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Conclusion of experiment: ordinary people are capable of doing terrible things because of authority figures. Consider these things when reading the rape of nanking. Middle of page 13 talked about how marx and engels had indicated that the bourgeoisie era was the era of everlasting uncertainty. They are talking about globalization, what we regard as a phenome of the latter part of the 20th century; however, they"re talking about it in 1848. Page 14 it compels all nations on the pain of extinction to introduce what to become bourgeoisie themselves after its own image. If you are going to compete, you"ve got to do them according to the capitalist mechanism or else it won"t work. The bourgeoisie than all the preceding generations together application to chemistry railways, electric telegraphs, clearing of whole continents what earlier century slumbered in the lap of social labor. This is a voracious beast that cannot be resisted.
