POLI 2060 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: The Communist Manifesto, French Revolution, Simone De Beauvoir
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State of nature-state of war-natural right-natural law-leviathan limits-natural liberty. Self-preservation- you can defend your natural right to life and your able to do any and everything. Natural law- you will seek peace and give up your natural right and develop a social right and contract to an individual (sovereign) or ruler. Once we give up our rights to the sovereign has to keep those rights. We need a sovereign to avoid a natural state of nature. Class conflict-modes of production-base and superstructure-alienated labor-means of production/property. Class conflict between the poor and the rich. Hobbes says it is individuals but marx says its class conflict that is the cause of conflict throughout history. Hobbes thinks there is an artificial leviathan that can solve these conflicts. Your mind is formed from whatever mode of production we are in. Bourgeois put a legislation where the rich could control the power. Hobbes things government marx thinks it is economics.
