History of the Political Thought

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History of the Political Thought

• Marx Engels

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The Revolution

• Recap The Communist Vision
• Bourgeois Freedom
• Communist Freedom
• The Road to Freedom
• Revolution
• Socialism

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The Communist Vision

• The distinguishing feature of Communism is not
  the abolition of property generally but the
  abolition of bourgeois property the theory of
  the Communists may be summed up in the single
  sentence Abolition of private property.
• -- The Communist Manifesto
• (Marx Engels)

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Bourgeois Freedom

• The System of wage labour is a system of
  slavery, and indeed of a slavery which become
  more severe in proportion as the social
  productive forces of labour develop, whether the
  worker receives better or worse payment.
• -- Critique of the Gotha Program
• (Marx)

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Bourgeois Freedom

• Modern bourgeois society with its relations of
  production, of exchange and of property, a
  society that conjured up such gigantic means of
  production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer,
  who is no longer able to control he powers of the
  nether world whom he has called up by his spells.

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Bourgeois Freedom

• In place of the old wants, satisfied by the
  productions of the country, we find new wants,
  requiring for their satisfaction the products of
  distant lands and climes. In place of the old
  local and national seclusion and
  self-sufficiency, we have intercourse in every
  direction, universal inter-dependence of
  nations.
• -- Communist Manifesto

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Bourgeois Freedom

• It compels all nations, on pain of extinction,
  to adopt the bourgeois mode of production it
  compels them to introduce what it calls
  civilization into their midst I.e., to become
  bougeois themselves. In one word, it creates a
  world after its own image.
• -- Communist Manifesto

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Bourgeois Freedom

• The bourgeois has subjected the country to the
  rule of the towns. It has created enormous
  cities, has greatly increased the urban
  population as compared with the rural, and has
  thus rescued a considerable part of the
  population from the idiocy of rural life.
• -- Communist Manifesto

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Bourgeois Freedom

• the bourgeoisie, during it rule of scarce one
  hundred years, has created more masive and more
  colossal productive forces than have all
  preceding generations together. Subjection of
  Natures forces to man, machinery, application of
  chemistry to industry and agriculture,
  steam-navigation, railways, electric telegraphs,
  clearing of whole continents for cultivation

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Bourgeois Freedom

• canalization of rivers, whole poulations
  conjured out of the ground-- what earlier century
  had even a presentiment that such productive
  forces slumbered in the lap of social labour?
• -- Communist Manifesto

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Precapitalist Economics
Leisure time
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wealth
Capitalist economics
Leisure time
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Capitalist economics
wealth
Allows for expansion of wealth and more leisure
time
Leisure time
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Capitalist economics
wealth
But doesnt allow anyone to stop and enjoy the
leisure time
Leisure time