Philosophy 1030A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Mao Zedong, Social Ownership, Secret Police
17 Dec 2017
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Revolutionary 6 socialism and communism after marx. Time period between marx"s death (1883) world war i (1914) Growing popular support for socialism and socialist parties. Belief that socialism and communism would come about peacefully through evolutionary means. Attempted to tell german social democratic party about the way in which their governing should be headed. Opposed to united german labour party led by ferdinand lassalle as he was an ardent proponent of nationalism who believed that workers of every nation should seek their own path to socialism. Lassalle believed that working people tended to be deeply patriotic and protective of their respective countries. Claimed that marxism was the honorific title of scientific socialism. Science - body of organized knowledge that was open to criticism and refutation. Marx believed in historically changeable artefacts mutable features characteristic of a particular social formations rather than fixed features of the past, present or possible societies.
