GER150H1 Lecture Notes - Fetishism, Proletariat, The Communist Manifesto
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Marx and engels, the communist manifesto (158-176), capital, chapter on commodity and its fetishism (216 243) *video: - fantasia - the sorcerers apprentice (about 3 minutes in: term in communist manifesto - sorcerer , what he was referring to was the sorcerer"s apprentice, (a poem by goethe, what happens when you can"t control labour (relations, pg. 210-11 in reader: engels and marx"s communist manifesto - most in uential text. Gets to the point: a spectre is haunting europe, the spectre of communism. quote. Communism is like a spectre- it comes out of the dark of repression, and therefore strikes fear, among bourgeoise of a possible revolution. Potentially explosive counter-pressure is in the air: workers are not yet powerful, but by acknowledging them and being anxious about it, they are given power. Draws the opposition into his argument: talks about a history of class struggles.
