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Background on materialism as a whole and its origins in England (Bacon, Hobbes, Locke) resulting in a worldview that favoured science over religion. The burgeoisie was a beneficiary of this development and used science to find more efficient ways of production. The burgeoisie realised soon, that the working people were not as happy. Religion became a norm again (in England) to keep the workers from rebelling.

Day 2: Chapter 2 complete. After the utopians of the first chapter, the science of dialectics enter the fray. We leave the history behind for a brief moment in order to put our process in place, as synthesis with historical materialism comes next. The line between life and death is an effective, and affecting, use case for this exercise. Our bodies exist in a unique space between, as does society.

Day 1: Chapter 1 of 3. A contained but provocative history of early socialist theory and revolutionary practice. As much as a dozen pages can, provides an important narrative for the material conditions that pushed human society into the age of capitalism, as well as the utopian socialist figures of the time, their necessary philosophical developments, but ultimate struggles to resolve their material goals.