... the international community after its publication. The Communist Manifesto gives insight into Europe's hierarchal social structure of the 19th centuary. After the French Revolution, feudalism was overthrown and replaced by free trade, which birthed a new class known as the bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie are millionaires who profit from a technological wave, beginning with the Industrial Revolution, at the expense of laborers ... the landlord and the shopkeeper. In addition to describing the evils of capitalism, Marx elaborates the social changes communists hope to effect on behalf of the p...

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NOTES FROM THEORY PACKET KARL MARX • studied law, philosophy, and history • lifelong collaboration w/ Friedrich Engels. • develop a communist ideology. • 1848 produced Communist Manifesto: urging workers to rise and ... advocate of individualism. • Feared that the advent of democracy was bringing with it a stifling pressure to conform to the conventional or popular opinion. • The Subjection of Women1869: was free to think and act for him or herself. JEREMY BENTHAM • Founder of Utilitarian School, which proposed that people maximize pleasure and minimize pain (felicific calculus...

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NOTES ..COMMUNIST MANIFESTO Main Idea: The book was preaching for the fall of the ruling classes and the emergence of the workers. The "Manifesto" inspired people to believe that the bourgeois ... equal. The main reason behind the bourgeois being the antagonist is that they are oppressors, the inheritors of the feudal system where they exploit their surrounding. Marx and Engels condemn free trade as a mean of exploitation, which demands the poorer people and nations to depend on the richer ones. "Universal interdependence of nations" is not seen as a beneficial factor, but just ... ...

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... was economically advanced because of the Industrial Revolution. This is due to two factors stated in the lecture notes. The two factors were the creation of a capitalist economic system and an industrial mode of economic production. Capitalism helped the economy advance because it allowed free enterprise which created a greater prosperity for the society as a whole. Industrial mode of production helped the economy ... ...

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Louis Althusser published "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses: Notes Towards an Investigation as an effort to understand anti-capitalistic uprising that was happing in his time. The issue Althusser is concentrating is how the working class fought off to ... is more diverse. The ISA he states blindly shapes the individual into the belief of independence. But in reality they interplay in manipulating the individual and believing that he is free. With the help of the church, family and etc. the individual are intized. The person alone subjects him or herself to the authority He states t...

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