POLI 1F90 Lecture Notes - False Consciousness, Federal Republic, Soviet Empire
11 Oct 2012
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Modernity spawned a variety of ideological schools/families. With the demise of feudalism, people were free to ponder and publish their thoughts. Modernity means something different if you"re a historian came at the point of literacy. Slide 3: liberalism and socialism/marxism share things in common. Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. Slide 6: marx and marxism come out of socialist critique of liberal individualism, competition and self interest. Read in economics, sociology, philosophy, political science. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being but their social being determines their consciousness . Did all his work in the uk. Meets frederick engles in france and writes the communist manifesto in. Engles conditions of the working classes in england (1845) Read upton sinclair"s the jungle (1906) for picture of pre-welfare state society. Contradictory social forces collide and produce new synthesis.
