Social Sciences and History / Unit 15 SSH 1438 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Marx: Class, Capital, and the Claim of Inevitability
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The idea
Karl Marx, with Engels, in the anchors: society divides into the bourgeoisie, who own the means of production, and the proletariat, whose labor they exploit; class struggle is the root of all historical conflict; capitalism is inhumane and destined for replacement by workers' revolution; nationalism divides workers.
In practice
The Manifesto, eighteen forty-eight; socialism as remedy.
Where people slip
Voiced as Marx's; no verdict.
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