MMW 14 Lecture 9: Feb 5 2019
7 Feb 2019
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Protest against the old and the new order. Crushed by the collusion between capitalists and probusiness regimes. Marx was unsurprised because they would both work to preserve their status and the old social order. Marx also blamed bourgeois socialists and utopian thinkers. They believed that social change was possible without revolution or struggle. He says the utopian thinkers are just impractical in general. The spirited rallying cry of workingmen of all countries, unite! . Meant to bring about the end of capitalism. They didn"t lose hope in communism, but saw the uprisings of 1848 as the rumblings of a new future. Eg: feudalism emancipation of the serf skilled labor. Eg: skilled labor of guilds entrepreneur market system. Thesis will always produce its own antithesis and the tension between the two will in turn produce a new idea/phenomenon. Significance of the hegelian dialectic applied to the study of history.
