POL208Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto, Class Conflict
1 Mar 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
"the communist manifesto" - scarcely coauthored by frederich engels: intended for a mass audience and was largely presented in newspapers, much less intellectual rigor as there is with "das capital" "das kapital" - finances for research and writing provided by engels. Father of the marxist theory along with karl marx. Engels helps marx financially because engels comes from wealth through factories. Engels helps contribute ideas to marx & engels, but for these works marx is the main writer. Marx and engels political theories are hard to categorize. Much of their writing was intended for a mass audience, as with the "communist manifesto" Most of their writing consisted of biographies of famous people, or commenting on events that were occurring at the time. Level of analysis issues - system, unit, individual etc. Marx & engels consist of primarily system level analysis. It is unleashed by the bourgeoisies as they seek to exploit financial gain.
