Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels | The Communist Manifesto | Philosophers Explained | Stephen Hicks

Philosophers, Explained covers major philosophers and texts, especially the great classics. In each episode, Professor Hicks discusses an important work, doing a close reading that lasts 40 minutes to an hour.
In this episode, Dr. Hicks gives a detailed reading of the Communist Manifesto, discussing class Marx and Engel's views on class struggle, the proletariat, the bourgeoisie and violent revolution.
Karl Marx (1818-1883) and Friedrich Engels(1820-1895) were German philosophers and socialist theorists
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Timestamps:
00:55 The text
02:38 The opening line
03:25 Class struggle/class conflict
05:25 The Bourgeoisie epoch
09:05 Political transformation
11:36 The Bourgeoisie in power
15:32 The productive power of the bourgeoisie
17:28 The world market
18:25 Rural transformation
20:02 The proletarians
24:00 The new despotism
25:08 Proletarian transformation into a revolutionary class
27:14 Trade unions
29:02 Conditions are unsatisfactory
29:42 The revolutionaries
31:48 Chapter Two: Abolition of property, family, nationality and the bourgeoisie
35:40 Wrest all capital from the bourgeoisie
26:47 Teh 10 Point List
38:26 A Declaration of Violent Revolution
Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, USA, and has had visiting positions at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., University of Kasimir the Great in Poland, Oxford University’s Harris Manchester College in England, and Jagiellonian University in Poland.
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The 30 in the first series include:
1. Immanuel Kant
2. Plato
3. Galileo Galilei
4. Ayn Rand
5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
6. René Descartes
7. Jean-Paul Sartre
8. Socrates
9. Martin Heidegger
10. Thomas Aquinas
11. Arachne and Athena
12. Aristotle
13. Albert Camus
14. Friedrich Nietzsche
15. John Dewey
16. Sigmund Freud
17. G.W.F. Hegel
18. William James
19. Søren Kierkegaard
20. John Locke
21. Karl Marx
22. John Stuart Mill
23. Thales
24. Benito Mussolini and Giovanni Gentile
25. William Paley
26. C.S. Lewis
27. David Hume
28. John Maynard Keynes
29. Thomas Kuhn
30. George Orwell

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