Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Class-based society
and the revolutinary
ideologies
- Revolutionary Ideologies
- Marxism
- Ideology developed by Karl Marx and Friederich Engels in the
19th cent. based on their analysis of politics and the economy.
- Karl Marx
- Friederich Engels
- Socialism
- Anarchism
- = unne esary
government
- Pierre Joseph Proudhon,
- Mikhail Bakunin
- Main principles
- Individual freedom
- Direct action:
- The abolition of private
property
- Class- based society
- A group of people within a society who possess the
same socioeconomic status.
- Three main groups / classes
- Upper Class:
- Wealthy Bourgeois:
- Bankers
- Factory owners
- Thanks to capitalism
they obtained many
profits at the cost of
the lower class.
- Middle Class
- Services
- Lawyers
- Doctors
- Shop
owners
- Craftsmen
- Working
class
- Industrial workers,
also known as the
proletariat.
- They worked in factories. They did not
own property and their wages were
usually low
- Tenant farmers
- Rented agricultural land in order
to cultivate it. Agricultural
labourers did seasonal work and
were paid by the day.
- Utopian Socialism
- ideological current that opposed
capitalism and aimed to improve working
conditions through education and
negotiation with the middle class.
- Charles Fourier
- Robert Owen