Western Civilization II / Unit 10 WC2 0919 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Overproduction, Crisis, Revolution: Marx's Mechanism
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The idea
The proletariat grows as bourgeois losers fall into it; workers cannot buy what they make, alienation; crises of overproduction recur until the system collapses and the proletariat seizes industrial wealth for all. To the young Marx the revolution was inevitable.
In practice
The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains, the Manifesto ends.
Where people slip
Doctrine stated as Marx's; the anchor's reading follows at 0920.
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