The Communist Manifesto

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The Communist Manifesto

• Analysis and review
• Chapter I

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Chapter I - introduction

• a) What is the Communist Manifesto?
• b) Who is its target audience?
• c) What are its aims as a document?

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Chapter I - capitalism

• 2. a) Why and how do Marx and Engels praise
  capitalism in this chapter?
• b) Why, specifically, is capitalism important?
  What conditions does it provide?
• c) How is the proletariat different from past
  revolutionary classes?

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Chapter I human nature

• 3. a) How has capitalisms emergence changed
  human nature?
• b) What is Marxs view on human nature?
  (deterministic/static or changing?)
• c) What causes human nature to change, according
  to Marx?

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Chapter I reality?

• 4. Why do you think Russia and China become
  communist, not the highly industrialised nations
  that Marx and Engels expected?