PHILOS 2G03 Lecture Notes - Proletarian Revolution, Philistinism, Henry David Thoreau
11 Oct 2012
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Human equality and freedom must be protected at all costs: which may include disobeying the law or the government and punished. October 10 for it: a right and a duty to struggle for freedom and equality when they have been taken from us. Blamed for corruption and exploitation, and the division between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. Authors all share a confrontational/antagonistic view of political action: (with the exception of thoreau state/governing institution is not necessarily the enemy, lenin most antagonistic; no compromise at all. (revolutionary militantism) Tone/theme of frustration and anger; an introduction to the idea of violence. Lenin, a revolutionary: a violent revolution absolutely necessary; the proletarian revolution is necessarily violent one if classes are irreconcilable, the state is a result of this. The only way that the oppressed can be liberated is a violent revolution: the state will wither away after the proletariat revolution it would be no longer necessary.
