HIST 1C Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: The Communist Manifesto, On Liberty, Class Conflict
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Laissez fair, division of labor, three divisions of economy : wage earners, land owners (renters), profitists. Connected to john stuart mill as the start. Three pillars of liberalism: equality before the law, government based on political rights/ consent of the governed, economic rights. Liberalism during post napoleon through the hungry 40s. Middle class most represents liberalism because they have most to gain. Freedom of press, assembly, life, liberty, and pursuit of property. Democratic : does not mean freedom of people ruling. Wealth of nation and on liberty by mill. Theory branches from helgen idea (history of ideas) Marx and engels say history is dictated by class struggle : mass v slave; working v . Because capitalism constantly needs surplus labor he constantly needs to fire workers find new markets it sews the seed of its own destruction. Workers eventually seize the state by developing a class mentality.
