User:Zachjones4/marx notes
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Marxism Notes-Zachjones4
I. Overview
Main Influences
G.W.F. Hegel
Adam Smith
David Ricardo
19th Century French Socialism
II. Hegelian Roots
A. Hegelian Idealism
i. The guiding theme of human history is the progress of freedom
ii. Freedom progresses with the development of ideas into their opposites
iii. Reality is dictated by series of conflicts→ compromisses between ideas
a. i.e. For every thesis, there is an anti thesis
b. ex. King Louis XIV & absolutism by devine right is the opposite of radical liberalism of Robespierre→ the enlightened depotism of Napolean

