SOCI 3220

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SOCI 3220

• 1/31 2/7, Marx and Engels

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The German Ideology

• The German ideology is to focus on ideas rather
  than material realities.
• It is ideological because it covers over the
  true oppressive nature of social relations and
  thereby allows them to continue on.
• Basic point instead of focusing on and
  critiquing ideas as entities in their own right
  (idealism) we need to focus on the material
  realities that determine ideas.

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Basics of Marxs materialism

• Homo Faber human beings can create their means
  of production.

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Communist Manifesto

• Basic purpose an essay distributed to workers to
  give them a sense of capitalist dynamics and the
  revolution to come.

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CM basic argument

• Society is bifurcating into two camps
  Bourgeoisie and proletariat.
• Bourgeoisie owners of capital
• Proletariat own only their labor
• Marx anti-capitalist and anti-bourgeoisie?
• P.5 6

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CM basic argument

• Crisis of over-production, p.8
• Development of a revolutionary proletarian class,
  pp.9-10
• Who is not part of the revolutionary class?
  (p.11-12)

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Eighteenth Brumaire

• King Louis Phillippe was overthrown in the
  revolution of 1848
• Republic was overthrown by Louis Bonaparte in
  1851
• A study of how revolution will not occur.

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Class lineup

• Aristocracy of finance
• Industrial bourg.
• Middle class
• Petty bourg.
• The army
• The lumpen
• Intellectual lights
• Clergy
• Rural population
• --------------------------
• urban proletariate

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United States in 2008?