diagnosis
He argues that European elites responded to the 1848 threat by dividing the new alliance: reframing the conflict as class war, making the movement look fanatical, and casting it as an international conspiracy.
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Class conflict
Major conflicts are between upper nobility and lower nobility, not rich and poor; aspirational middle and rich people want more while the poor are inert.
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diagnosis
Jiang says the manifesto defines the real conflict as bourgeoisie versus proletariat and asks listeners to accept that a vanguard party will voluntarily dissolve after abolishing class.
model
Major conflicts are between upper nobility and lower nobility, not rich and poor; aspirational middle and rich people want more while the poor are inert.
model
The lecture's social-conflict model rejects a simple haves-versus-have-nots story: revolutions usually come from the lower nobility, petite bourgeoisie, or middle class who have some status but want more.
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"destroy us so what can we do about it their solution is we have to divide them okay we have to divide them so..."
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"these communists are in secret society who want to take over the entire world so it's not that oh these workers just want more..."
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"The public power will lose its political character. Political power, probably so -called, is merely organized power of one class for oppressing another. The..."
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"And for the proletariat to win, they need a party, okay? They need a vanguard party. But, hey, once this vanguard party establishes itself..."
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"Okay. So, to remind you, okay, the conflict arises between upper nobility and lower nobility. So, upper nobility are just the optimists, people like,..."
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"The poor don't do anything. Okay? The poor just, like, I'm poor, I'm useless, I'll just sit and die. Okay? That's what poor people..."
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"You could not own land. You could not even speak in public. Okay? Does that make sense? All right. So Athens was a democracy..."
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"Okay? When you look at history, the conflicts in society are usually between the have a lot and have somewhat more. Does that make..."
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"...the workers against each other okay to create the idea of class conflict all right okay so Karl Marx and Frederick Engels all right..."
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