Status Updates From The Communist Manifesto

Note 3/3:

Furthermore, M&E's sweeping, oversimplified narrative of how the totality of history's classes have now subsumed into the bourgeoisie and the proletariat seem as un-nuanced as Hayek's 'Road to Serfdom'.

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ideas of liberty and equality. Without ideas, materialist forces (such as Piketty's r > g) can only form economic PHENOMENA (such as capitalists becoming increasingly richer than labourers) but cannot trigger class struggle. I also do not understand why Marx posited materialism when key Marxist concepts like class consciousness seem fundamentally idealist.

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Marx and Engels (henceforth 'M&E') say that the history of mankind is the history of class struggle. If so, is it not clear that the history of class struggle is rooted in the idealist Dialectic? Do M&E think that class struggles are purely rooted in materialism? How is it possible for classes to struggle without priority in ideas? In my view, a slave will only revolt against his master if he first had ...