HIST 1400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto, Class Conflict
Notes 3/19/2018
Socialism
Liberal Reform, Socialist Revolution
● 1848 Revolution
○ No one likes aristocrats
■ Huge losers
○ Puts Napoleon the 3rd in power
Communist Manifesto
● Comes out just before 1848 revolution
○ Written by Karl marx and Friedrich Engels
Key Terms of Marxism
● Class Struggle- Drives the progress of history
○ Dominant class and oppressed class
■ Tension between two\
● Technology- Whichever class owns tech. That’s the one who is on top
● Labor- Forms the identity and value of classes
○ Forms who u are and how u see the world
● Superstructure- Ideology and govt. Which are created by the dominant class
○ Supports goal of that class
● Dialectic- The process by which the class struggle develops
○ Every dominant class creates the class that will overthrow it
Hegelian Dialectic
● Thesis vs. Antithesis
○ Merge to create synthesis
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Document Summary
Written by karl marx and friedrich engels. Class struggle- drives the progress of history. Labor- forms the identity and value of classes. Forms who u are and how u see the world. Dialectic- the process by which the class struggle develops. Every dominant class creates the class that will overthrow it. Sell their work and manage with help from tools and machines. Money paid by consumer goes to capitalist. Capitalists keep profit for themselves and invest it. Capitalists are able to hire more proletarians and cycle is then elevated. Steps for communism: primitive communism (cavemen, no private property, no classes, no state, ex: hunter/gatherer society. Slaveholding society creates an aristocracy which eventually destroys it and creates a new social order: ex: fall of roman empire, feudalism, nobles own all means of production and a portion of the laborers, classes: nobles vs.
