POLS 300 Study Guide - Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis, Dialectic, Utopian Socialism
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Os 300: intro to political philosophy dr. nikki mitchell. Philosophers included: edmund burke, karl marx, friedrich nietzsche. That past generations had given consent for us: define/explain: intergenerational duties. Everything that helps us today comes from past generations. We have a natural debit to all the people who came before us. Obligated to pass on knowledge to the next generation. Because of the discrimination against jews in germany: describe marx"s working years. The working conditions he saw in the major. 40= actual wage: define: proletariat: workers, bourgeoisie: business and factory owners, alienation: Human knowledge can also be a productive force. relations of production: (often legally encoded) ownership & control relations pertaining to society"s productive assets,. Because there was always someone other than the worker in control of it: what are the stages of history, according to marx, early communism, slavery, feudalism, capitalism, socialism -> govt. owns means of prod. Government owns many serves, industries: communism -> no state/govt.
