PAPM 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto, Class Conflict

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Public Affairs and Policy Management
• Course: PAPM 1000
• Professor: Marc Andre Gagnon

Document Summary

Disciple of hegel (analysis of history from the basis of ideological transformation, cycles). Takes hegel"s analysis of history and uses class instead of ideas. Bffs with friedrich engels, who finances and helps marx in writing. Takes scientific approach to socialism, counter to utopian visions. No suggestion as to what a communist state would look like--> lenin is the guy who does this, using marx"s writing as a base. Very grounded in his own time, with many revisions of his works. Collection of notes, some written by engels that will contradict. Historical materialism: marxist theory that maps the development of economies from primitive/communal system, slave-holding system, feudal system, capitalist system, socialist system. Driving engine of history is the material organization of society. Material foundations form the society, and they naturally evolve upward with technological development. As the system evolves, the new system"s problems will be discovered and they will evolve up.