SOCI 386 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: The Communist Manifesto, Proletarianization, Class Conflict

• School: McGill University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 386
• Professor: Barry Eidlin

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Two types of laws (unjust and just) One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dra(cid:373)atize the issue that i (cid:272)a(cid:374) (cid:374)o lo(cid:374)ge(cid:396) (cid:271)e ig(cid:374)o(cid:396)ed. (cid:863) Social movements are key to understanding social change (cid:862)ne(cid:448)e(cid:396) dou(cid:271)t that a s(cid:373)all g(cid:396)oup of thoughtful, (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)itted (cid:272)itize(cid:374)s (cid:272)a(cid:374) (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ge the (cid:449)o(cid:396)ld; i(cid:374)deed, it"s the o(cid:374)l(cid:455) thi(cid:374)g that e(cid:448)e(cid:396) has. (cid:863) Communist manifesto first published in german in february 1848, on eve of europe-wide revolutionary upheavals.