SOCB30H3 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: The Communist Manifesto, Productive Forces, Bourgeoisie
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Chapter 1: bourgeois & proletariats: free man vs. slave, lord vs. serf, the oppressor vs. the oppressed. All of history up till now (and even now) is about class struggles. Class struggles are always in opposition often resulting in revolutions or ruins. Earlier on in history, there were complicated arrangements of power, i. e. , knights, kings, lords, vs. subordinates: the modern bourgeois society sprouted form old-fashioned societies, but established new classes, new forms of oppression, and new forms of struggle. Our current time period = epoch of the bourgeoisie: its distinctive feature = simplification of the classes. There are now only 2: the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. The serfs (farm labourers) became burghers (wealthy citizens: discovery of america, trading, commerce, navigation, industry. Industry went from monopolized closed associated to manufacturing systems (of divide labour: and then later to steam and machinery. Modern industry established world market, developed commerce,
