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Marx is framed as a poet-prophet of a new world whose simplicity and optimism were formed against the misery of industrial capitalism and the 1840s European potato famine.
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Industrial Capitalism
Industrial capitalism required several contingent religious and geopolitical revolutions rather than a simple technological law of history.
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Industrial capitalism required several contingent religious and geopolitical revolutions rather than a simple technological law of history.
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"Everything that happens is because of our memories and our psychology. Okay? But that's next Tuesday. But, just to give you a heads up...."
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"...too simple in his understanding of human history. All right. So, industrial capitalism is coming to Europe and it makes everyone miserable. It's, it's..."
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"Okay? So, remember in the 16th century the Europeans, the Spanish discovered the new world and they brought back the potato. Why is that..."
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"...complicated. Okay? But for Marx, the only, what gives rise to industrial capitalism and the bourgeoisie is just technology and the progress of history...."
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"Okay? The Holy Trinity is the weirdest idea in human history. The Holy Trinity is this. God is nothing and everything. Okay? And what..."
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"And they needed to force themselves to believe they are the elect. Okay? And then, the age of exploration where the old world, Europe..."
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"...gives us feudalism okay which then allows for the rise of industrial capitalism and this is a stage marx finds himself at and what..."
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"he uses the hegelian dialectic right so feudalism is the thesis industrial capitalism is antithesis and then together they will create communism why okay..."
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"...at this time was the Catholic religion. When we go into industrial capitalism, the dominant religion is Protestantism. Okay? So as we discussed before,..."
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"...was everywhere. But it was only in Europe did you have industrial capitalism. It was because of the Protestant faith. That's what drove it...."
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"...status, not class. The concept of class is created because of industrial capitalism, because of the free market. Because now people were mobile. Okay?..."
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Marx is powerful because he sees what capitalism does to the soul.
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