POLS 1150 Chapter Notes - Chapter p50-73: Proletarian Revolution, Friedrich Engels, Planned Economy

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 1150
• Professor: Mark Yanisziewski

Document Summary

Aristotle saw democracy as direct popular government: thought would degenerate into mob rule because lacked institutions, capable of ensuring individual liberty and controlling self-seeking interests, enlarged the concept by adding concepts like: An outgrowth of an earlier revolt against oligarchic government, one that culminated in the (cid:862)glorious re(cid:448)olutio(cid:374)(cid:863) of 1688 in england: downfall of king james ii. Established the sovereignty of parliament over the monarchy. Blocked the royal family from suspending acts of parliament or interfering with. Industrial revolution decisions of the courts: stimulated a demand to free the tax payer from arbitrary and restrictive government action. Classical conservatives: thomas hobbes human nature is essentially selfish, requiring restraint of government power to tame the destructive and selfish tendencies of people. Saw the selfishness expressed as social whim, demands for rapid or radical change, and license for unfettered individual freedoms: david hume wrote a (cid:271)ook: (cid:862)treatise of human nature(cid:863)