KARL MARX'S CONCEPTION OF HISTORY IN THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO
Karl Marx's immediate philosophical forebear, Hegel, was a determinist. Hegel believed that history unfolded according to an inviolable form of order that manifested itself dialectically. A concept, a mode of thought, a way of existing forms a Thesis. This thesis represents and embodies the Absolute Truth. But, because the Universe has not yet reached the stage where Absolute Spirit has fully realized itself, the truth that a given thesis represents is only a partial, one-sided truth. The thesis brings about its own opposite as a natural by-product of its own existence. For example, in the very act of thinking about Hegel's first, most fundamental thesis, Being, one cannot help but stumble across the concept of its opposite: Nothing. Once a thesis and its opposite - its Antithesis - both exist, a new Synthesis of the two comes into existence (Being and Nothing coalesce into the notion of Becoming) which becomes, itself, a new thesis and starts the process anew. At each stage, the actualization of Absolute Spirit increases. In this fashion, the history of the Earth plays out the self-realization, in and for itself, of Absolute Spirit, Hegel's conception of God. Borrowing the notion of an historical dialectic from Hegel, Mar
and of its rule.... The productive forces at the disposal of society no longer tend to further the development of the And, so, by an inevitable historical process, a dialectic, "the modern bourgeoisie is itself the product of a long course of development, of a series of revolutions in the modes of production and of exchange." And each of these has been "accompanied by a corresponding political advance in class." At each turn, whichever class represented and controlled the apex of production also held political sway, organizing the affairs of the state to suit its ends. So it follows that "the executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the bourgeoisie." conditions of bourgeois property; on the contrary, they have become too powerful for these conditions, by which
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