SCA-UA 1 Chapter Notes - Chapter All: Barter, Free Trade, Practical Reason
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The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles (14) The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of the hedual society has not done away with class antagonisms. It has but established new classes, new conditions of oppression, new forms of struggle in place of the old ones (14) The discovery of america, the rounding of the cape, opened up fresh ground for the rising bourgeoisie (15) Dates emergence of bourgeois much earlier however the discovery of america helps to enhance this. The modern bourgeoisie is itself the product of a long course of development, of a series of revolutions in the modes of production and of exchange (15) It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage labourers (16) Has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation .