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The Communist Manifesto. By Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. “Dialectical Materialism”. “Dialectical”: This denotes that the basis of society is conflict. Marx identified that conflict as class conflict that established by property.
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The Communist Manifesto By Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
“Dialectical Materialism” • “Dialectical”: This denotes that the basis of society is conflict. Marx identified that conflict as class conflict that established by property. • “Materialism”: This denotes that there are no spiritual forces, no divine guidance or intervention.
Social Production Division of Labor Some “Corner the Market” Class system Underclass Oppressed Rulers Oppressors History of Class Conflict
Freeman Patrician Lord Guildmaster Bourgeoisie Oppressor Slave Plebeian Serf Journeyman Proletariat Oppressed History of Class Conflict Vs.
Religion Philosophy Religion and Arts Law The State Social Relationships Of Production Forces of Production Factories Machines Labor Tools Means of Production Land Raw Materials Energy
What is the Solution to the Continual Cycle of Class Conflict? “The immediate aim of the Communists is the same as that of all the other proletariat parties: formation of the proletariat into a class, overthrow of the bourgeois supremacy, conquest of political power by the proletariat. [ . . . .]The theory of the Communist may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.” (qtd. in Knoebel 381)