I. Karl Marx (1818-83) • Had an articulated view in history, and constructed his own narrative of history. • At the Crossroads of modern economics, history, politics, and sociology. • The post-revolutionary milieu, the French revolution. • Industrialism
II. Revolution • A revolutionary philosophy • A fundamental changes in social relationships. • Industrial revolution o Urbanization ▪ New classes ← Burgeoisie ← Proletariat- a new class as a result of the industrial revolution. Into the factories they went. • C. Marx’s theory of history o Based on Hegel’s dialectic- …show more content…
▪ Primitive communism, this is what people would call a hunter gathering society. ▪ Slave Society ▪ Feudalism ▪ Capitalism ▪ Communism o Communism represents
III. The communist Manifesto, 1848 • A year of revolutions
Why study marx?
Was he right or wrong?
A materialist cure for materialism
The muslim brotherhood and the communist hate the western industrial world.
Effects of the French revolution on San Dominque • Oge • Slave revolt in 1791 o Boukmann o Goussaint Louverture (napolean of the slaves) • A new repupclic in the western hemisphere o Whose enlightenment is it? • Revolution in Spanish America o Napoleon and the Bourlon restoration ▪ Burbon Borbon 1815 tried to put everything back that napoleon destroyed. (didn’t work) o Conservative take oven Latin America ▪ Colonial aristocracy ▪ Pro- catholic, pro authority o Colonial Nationalism and break down of Spanish rule ▪ Fr. Hidalgo: leading a peasent revolot ▪ Mexican independence • • Mexican Political Instability o Agustin de Bturlide (1783-1824) o Anotonio lopey de santa anna (1794-1876) o Porfiro Diaz (1830-1915) o Emperor Maximilian (1832-1897) ▪ Not enlightiened societies ▪ Want to install absolute power ▪ Always getting corporate money from america ▪ Creating authoritative system o South America o Simon Bolivar (1783-1830) o Jose San Martin (1778-1850)
The late ottoman Empire • The sick man of Europe o A.
Ottoman power peaks in the 17th century, falls steadily until the end of WWI. o Austro-Hungarian empire ▪ Rule by Hapsbring family ▪ Expanist society starts taking over land from the ottomans. ▪ Too reculan, too madern ▪ Greatest extent lasted (1683-99) o Coruption of the Janissary corps ▪ Lapses in training ▪ Assumption of hereditary ← Rights- sultans have no power to stop them- less loyalty ▪ Loss of economic power ← Ottomans eclipsed in commodity training ← The Julip Period (1781-1730) • Semper augustus (sold by the dutch) ▪ Political weakness ← Janissary
rebellions ← Provincal power expands at the expence of the center ← A long succession of the weak sultans ▪ Struggles for reform ← Selim II (1761-1808) • Strengthens the army • Centralize the government • Reforms taxation and Landholding ← Serbian Independence (1806-17) • Christian revolt (against janissary) • Janissary revolt (against the sulitan) • Revolt of the clerics • execution of selim ← Greek war for independence (1839) against the turks ← A latter day “Crusade” • George Gordan o Lord Byron (1788-1824) ▪ A poet enlisted to fight ← Mahmud II (1808-1839) • Modern Army and technical training • Abolition of the janissary corps, 1826 • Suppression of religious elite and creation of civil government. ← tanzimat (1839):restructuring” • Uniform law code • =protection for religious minorities • importations of western culture • westernization of army • industrialization • clerics and young ottomans.