SOSC 1520 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Class Conflict, Proletariat, Vladimir Lenin
20 Apr 2017
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-> this did not mean that the workers accepted their fate, they began to form unions and walk off the job and protest their wages. A political and economic theory of social organization which advocates the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole. Has roots as far back as ancient greece. A group of people during earl 1800s who were opposed to technology, because it was replacing their cottage industries with machines. Applied to the movement that aims to overthrow the capitalist order by revolutionary means and to establish a classless society in which all goods will be socially owned. Anarchists: group that set out to abolish the government, believing that the gov"t only existed to protect the rich. -> communism wanted to do somewhat the same (abolish the gov"t) except by revolutionary means (which includes aggressive violence).
