PHL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: For Marx, Feudalism, Bourgeoisie
4 Dec 2020
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Earlier philosophers tried to understand the world; marx tried to change the world. Poque, which is dependent upon the relation of production of socio/economic formation. 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 five stages: the primitive communal society, slavery, feudalism, capitalism, communism. Marx relied the hegelian concept of dialectic to explain history as a story of class struggle. Dialectical materialism: to view history unfolding, as a dialectical movement. For him, reality is constantly changing, and what causes change is simply the quantitative alteration of things, leading to something qualitatively new. In constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, bourgeoisie creates its antagonist class, the proletariat. With the development of industry the proletariat grows both in numbers and its concentration of mass.
