HIS 1110 Study Guide - Working Poor, Feudalism, Class Conflict
Document Summary
1850 only 14 cities had 200,000 people, 1910 38 cities with 200,000. New ideologies challenging capitalism which was not helping the working poor enough. Class conflict, have one class then no more class conflict. Feudalism lead to these (lords) and anti thesis (serfs) this leads to bourgeois capitalism which gives you bourgeoisie conflicting with workers/proletariat. This then fuses to get socialism and synthesis community of proletariat. Pure marxism says you have to go through all those stages but russia was still mainly feudal and not industrialized and so lenin said that they can skip that phase and go to the last phase in communism. By 1918 countries realized how important oil is and try to get regions that have it. 1908 british company finds oil in iran (first major discovery). Germany begins to challenge that with building of fleet. Germany allies with ottoman empire gets railway into. Baghdad from berlin, this threatens british trade and india.
