HIST 121 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Bourgeoisie, Class Conflict, Proletariat
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Ideas composed of philosophy, economics and poliical theory. His theory is universal theory of totality. Workers are poor, so they can"t produce their own goods; must do it for capitalists and be exploited. Concept of alienaion: menioned in his manuscript 1844, the worker becomes all the poorer the more wealth he produces, the more his producion increases in power and size. The bourgeoisie have brought about their own demise. Karl marx loathes the bourgeoisie; idolizes the proletariat. The driving force of social development is the tension between producivity and relaions of producion. Inevitably, people will unite and overthrow capitalists: private property will limit the producive force. Marx believes the proletariat are the revoluion; they must do it because they have absolutely nothing to lose except their oppressive chains. Democraic labor party (rsdlp) into lenin"s bolsheviks and the mensheviks. The revoluion must be done underground, so democracy cannot be apart of the revoluion.
