User:Zachjones4/marx notes


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Marxism Notes-Zachjones4

I. Overview

Main Influences

G.W.F. Hegel

Adam Smith

David Ricardo

19th Century French Socialism

II. Hegelian Roots A. Hegelian Idealism i. The guiding theme of human history is the progress of freedom ii. Freedom progresses with the development of ideas into their opposites iii. Reality is dictated by series of conflicts→ compromisses between ideas a. i.e. For every thesis, there is an anti thesis b. ex. King Louis XIV & absolutism by devine right is the opposite of radical    liberalism of Robespierre→ the enlightened depotism of Napolean