Western Civilization II / Unit 10 WC2 0918 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Marx: Class Struggle, Bourgeoisie, Proletariat, and the Means of Production
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The idea
Marx, born eighteen eighteen, wrote the Communist Manifesto with Engels in eighteen forty-eight: all history is class struggle, simplified under capitalism to bourgeoisie, who own the means of production, against proletariat, who own only their labor, the commons enclosed and the artisan made obsolete.
In practice
The witness: class struggle is Marxism's core.
Where people slip
Philosophers have interpreted the world; the point is to change it.
Your place on the trail
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Unlocks
- 0919Overproduction, Crisis, Revolution: Marx's Mechanism
- 0921The Bourgeoisie and the Nobility: Money and Titles Blur
- 0934Reading the Communist Manifesto
- 1024Lenin's Context: Marx Plus Russian Terrorism
- 1028The First International, 1864, and Mass Socialist Parties
- 1405Bakunin Plus Marx: Lenin's Vanguard Party
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