... France were rioting. This period of minor revolt was echoed throughout the world. All sides recognised that changes urgently needed to be made. The law and order element of politics made its first appearance, aimed at targets of a non political kind, including, student movements, counter cultures, the drift ... one sided rationalism which had no sympathy for the individual. The left failed to comprehend the necessity to educate the common people, while the law and order morality crusades of Thatcherites found popularist support. This was perhaps the most practical, common sense, ideologi...

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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 take over the means of production for the ... workers everywhere in a revolutionary struggle. • Suggested a new way of looking at social life and history: he saw material and economic conditions as a responsible for the shaping of our values, morality, attitudes, and political institutions. • Singled out property relations to the key element and the exploitation of "h...

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... abolish capitalism. In achieving this goal, the proletariat will eradicate all remnants of bourgeois cultural brainwash, which act to perpetuate this unfair social structure. This includes family organization, religion, law, and morality. "And here it becomes evident, that the bourgeoisie is unfit any longer to be the ruling class in society, and to impose its conditions of existence upon society as an ... overriding law" (Marx, 21). On its agenda, the communists hope to abolish countries and nationalities so that the proletariat's ideas are the common threshold of humanity, liberate wo...

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... , then he is exploited by other bourgeoisie, such as his landlord. The Manifesto describes the proletariat as the only true revolutionary. They believe the Old Society is already past preservation. "Law, morality, religion, are to him so many bourgeois prejudices, behind which lurk in ambush just as many bourgeois interests." It is the proletariat who will eventually destroy the bourgeoisie. Which of ... Marx's Predictions for the Future Came True? To Marx and his followers, the state was the "executive committee of the ruling class." Law and other government functions would reflect the ...

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