LWSOC-UA 1 Study Guide - Final Guide: The Communist Manifesto, Friedrich Engels, Class Conflict
30 Oct 2017
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Addressed by social authority- not as subjects of duty-but subjects of pleasures. When you put the glasses on you see dictatorship in democracy; restrains your apparent freedom. You can finally see how things really are. Ideology is not simply imposed on ourselves; it is our spontaneous relationship to our social world; we enjoy our ideology. Uses the metaphor of camera obscura inverted picture . Metaphor of the lens as ideology or filter as ideology had been used in marxist ideology for a while. Not forceful or coercive, but it is there. A lot of niches in democratic order that makes a patchwork of ideology. Capitalism does not need more capitalism it needs more single consumers; family consumes less per person. Whatever you thought as unbreakable as undoable as solid as steady is crumbling, just going away. (may 5, 1818 march 14, 1883: german philosopher, political economist, historian, sociologist, humanist, political theorist and revolutionary credited as the founder of communism.
