POLI 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Proletariat, Feudalism, Manifesta
9 Oct 2015
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The real nature of man is the totality of social relations . Contradictions of capitalism lead to economic crisis. Section of ruling class will join the proletariat and imitate revolution. A revolutionary but also a scientist of history. Enormous impact on politics and intellectual world. 1st marxist revolution occurred in agrarian peasant society (russia) Revolution is supposed to engulf whole world once industrialized. Marx thought revolution would start in britain. Countries that did revolutionized people were more dependent on agriculture. Back in vogue with 2008 recession (or crisis, as marx would call it) Multiple causes of failure: it"s hard to deliver utopia. Under preformed in science, technology, economics, agriculture production. Nationalism is rivaled only by marxism as one of the most important doctrines of the modern era. Relatively rare case of coterminous political and cultural boundaries. This is rare because state boundaries rarely conform to messy ethnic distribution. Fewer than 10% of states can be described as nation states.
