Thursday, September 18, 2014

Homework: The birth of communism

Date assigned
Thursday, Sept. 18


Assignment
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels saw the misery of the working class during the Industrial Revolution, and came up with ideas about how government should change in order to make people's lives better.

Read Engels's description of life in the Industrial Revolution (found here) and an excerpt from Marx and Engel's most famous work, The Communist Manifesto (found here).  Post a 300-word summary of Marx and Engels's ideas on the Google Group, and be prepared to discuss in class on Monday.
 

Due date
Monday, Sept. 22

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