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Introduction to Political Theory (POLS 1002)
University of Connecticut
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2.“History of all hitherto existing society† is the history of class struggles” (pg)
2, “In the earlier epochs of history, we find almost everywhere a complicated arrangement of society into various orders, a manifold gradation of social rank” (pg)
2, “The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done away with class antagonisms. It has but established new classes, new conditions of oppression, new forms of struggle in place of the old ones. “ (ph)
2 or 3. Historical progression “has simplified class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great camps fighting each other: Bourgeoisie and Proletariat” (pg)
2, “The discovery of America.. East-Indian and Chinese markets, the colonisation of America, trade with the colonies, the increase in the means of exchange and in commodities generally, gave to commerce, to navigation, to industry, an impulse never before known, and thereby, to the revolutionary element in the tottering feudal society, a rapid development. “ (pg)
- “The feudal system of industry.. manufacturing system took its place.” “manufacturer no longer sufficed. Thereupon, steam and machinery revolutionised industrial production “ (pg)
2 or 3, “The place of manufacture was taken by the giant, Modern Industry.. millionaires, the leaders of the whole industrial armies, the modern bourgeois.”(pg)
2 or 3. “Development of the bourgeoisie was accompanied by a corresponding political advance of that class” (pg)
- “It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his “natural superiors”, and has left remaining 3. no other nexus (connection) between man and man than naked selfinterest, than callous “cash payment” (pg)
pg. 3 worth into exchange value has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation “their children transformed into simple articles of commerce and instruments of labour. “(pg)
2, “ bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionising the instruments of production.. need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe”
2 or 3.“ It has agglomerated population, centralised the means of production, and has concentrated property in a few hands.” (pg) Bottom pg. “society suddenly finds itself put back into a state of momentary barbarism; it appears as if a famine, a universal war of devastation, had cut off the supply of every means of subsistence; industry and commerce seem to be destroyed; and why? Because there is too much civilisation, too much means of subsistence” how the bourgeoisie will destroy itself” - 3. “bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable. “ (pg)
“Modern Industry has converted the little workshop of the patriarchal master into the great factory of the industrial capitalist.... they slaves of the bourgeois class..” (pg) COMPARE
“The less the skill and exertion of strength implied in manual labour... more is the labour of men superseded by that of women. Differences of age and sex have no longer any distinctive social validity for the working class. All are instruments of labour, more or less expensive to use, according to their age and sex.” (pg) Compare
“”As of now )the proletarians do not fight their enemies, but the enemies of their enemies, the remnants of absolute monarchy, the landowners, the non-industrial bourgeois, the petty bourgeois. Thus, the whole historical movement is concentrated in the hands of the bourgeoisie; every victory so obtained is a victory for the bourgeoisie. “ (pg) monarchy
“every class struggle is a political struggle” (pg)
3.“Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another” (pg)
2 or 3. “The bourgeoisie finds itself involved in a constant battle. At first with the aristocracy; later on, with those portions of the bourgeoisie itself” (pg)
“the proletariat alone is a really revolutionary class. 2 other classes decay and finally disappear in the face of Modern Industry” (pg)
“All previous historical movements were movements of minorities, or in the interest of minorities”(pg)
2, “The French Revolution, for example, abolished feudal property in favour of bourgeois property. “
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Course: Introduction to Political Theory (POLS 1002)
University: University of Connecticut
