Feminist Thought

Marxism: The Communist Manifesto

Reading: Marx and Engels, Excerpts from The Communist Manifesto, pp. 355-362, in Losco and Williams;

Discussion Questions on the Communist Manifesto:

What has divided people historically and today?

What are the primary economic stages of history and what classes did they each produce?

What kind of political structure did each stage produce?

How does capitalism grow?

What is the nature of bourgeois society?

How/why will bourgeois capitalism come undone?

What roles are women playing in bourgeois capitalism?

How will proletarian society be structured?

How will these changes affect women?