Marx and Engels 2:

• We know the material world provides the driving force of history
• breakdown of capitalism is necessary to move history forward to the next stage
• specifically, the material dialetic will create whatever comes next.
• capitalism has its contradiction and when these are resolves the productive power of capitalism will be realised 
• befor that a revolution is required. 

• Hegels slave and master epoch and the knowledge he says slaves acquire by labouring.
• capitalism everyone works together in the same places of employment... living in same places and so on.
• thererfore seeds of communism are already there.
• Marx and Engels epochs are distinguished by the different social relations of production and the different production technologies that fo with them.

Journey of Self-discovery: 

• same sort of journey as Hegel based his whole philosophy on.
• involving self-estrangement and ending in self-discovery: from primitive communism back to communism
• a quest for some sort of perfection: complete knowledge is the same as the stat of real history, ie when the human story will really begin.
• when the human story really begins it will do so with us returned to out real selves and with real human between each other.

• spontaneous change or an agent of change
• M and E the agent of change are social classes.
• and classes are defined by economic position - not just in capitalism.

Class and modes of production: 

• in ancient society its master and slace.
• in feudal society its landowner and serf
• in capitalism its bourgeoisie and proletariat
• in each case there is a diffent economic system (mode of production) and a different sort of property.

• a revolution in everything including the forms of property.
• the whole of history is a tale of class struggle
• there are as many classes as there are way of subsisting and this many differnt relationship to propoerty. 

Classes and Ideologies: 

• ideology arises from an economic position
• classes think the way thery do because of thier economic position
• in their idology they are thinking about their positiong (and interests) through this may not always be obvious to us or even to them.
• classes often come up with ideas which are very convenient for them and which help to justify their actions.

• depend on your material circumstances how useful your ideology really is for you.
• the isolated (from each other) peasant could only come up with armed nationalism
• the higher classes came up with ideas that were much more useful to them.
• indeed the top classes had the material circumstances which allowed them to actually impos thier ideas on others.
• rulling class/rulling ideas.

• depend on your material circumstances how useful your ideology really is for you.
• the isolated (from each other) peasant could only come up with armed nationalism
• the higher classes came up with ideas that were much more useful to them.
• indeed the top classes had the material circumstances which allowed them to actually impos thier ideas on others.
• rulling class/rulling ideas.