POLC92H3 Lecture 1: POLB92 Reading Notes Midterm.pdf
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Manifesto of the communist party karl marx and frederick engels. The french revolution was thus essentially a bourgeois revolution. The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins for feudal society has not done away with class antagonisms. It has established new classes, new conditions of oppression, new forms of struggle in place of the old ones. The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honored and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the prier and the poet into its paid wage- laborers. In one word, it creates a world after its own image. It has agglomerated population, centralized means of production, and has concentrated property in a few hands. The necessary consequence of this was political centralization. The key to understanding history is the look at the struggle between the oppressor and the oppressed.
