ARTE 340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: The Communist Manifesto, Materialism, Jost Amman
2 Nov 2014
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Ekffarsis - online writing platform initiated by students. Nation: origins in non-specialized use of terms race, breed; evolution to mean realm, kingdom, as political union; now may be understood as making unity out of difference; as a set of representations; as discourse) Native: born of a place; shift from us to others under colonialism; especially indigenous peoples first nations. The communist manifesto (written with friiedrich engels, 1847-48) Different sort of factions that have been fighting over a period of time. All socialist can be under the same tent. The manifesto: as iconic locating artefact of modernity; and as iconic, revolutionary literary genre (big ideas, plain and poetic language, strong evidence, built for understanding) All fixed, fast-frozen relations , with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify.
