POLC73H3 Lecture Notes - Class Consciousness, Scottish Enlightenment, Meritocracy

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Marx distinguishes himself from the scottish enlightenment by proposing two dominant interests in each era (not one single paradigm) that of the lower and upper classes. Robert owen"s post-industrial utopia wanted to create harmony between capital and labour. Marx was almost as strongly against utopian socialism as he was against capitalism. Born in germany to a middle-class family. Studied law, but felt intellectually stifled (drank and wrote poetry) Went to berlin to study philosophy (where he met engels) Engels was a capitalist: but marx"s theories hold social change to structural/economic events, not individual morality. First publication was a newspaper article on wood theft on the change of woodland from common to private property (so people couldn"t take wood for heat); and the destruction of the craftsman and self-sufficiency (alienation). The law is hard on the man or woman. Who steals the goose from off the common. Exiled first to france, then from there to england.

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