PHIL 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: For Marx, Feudalism, Dialectic

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1010
• Professor: Omid Payrow Shabani

Document Summary

Earlier philosophers tried to understand the world while marx tried to change it. Marx believes that historical development is based on the antagonism of the oppressed and oppressor classes. Historical materialism: the view of history as a movement caused by conflict in the material order. Historical materialism divides history into 5 stages: the primitive communal society, slavery, feudalism, capitalism, communism. Mar(cid:454) relied the hegelia(cid:374) (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)ept of (cid:862)diale(cid:272)ti(cid:272)(cid:863) to e(cid:454)plai(cid:374) histor(cid:455) as a stor(cid:455) of (cid:272)lass struggle. To view history unfolding as a dialectical movement is called dialectical materialism. Capitalism in four ways contributes to its own demise: by consolidation of capital, by the law of increasing misery, by unifying workers through centralization of production, by cyclic crisis of business. According to marx, communists ae the intellectuals and theorists who formulate and give expression to the class interests of the proletariat.