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10.4- Historical Materialism

Revolutions

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The New Socialist Mode of Production

The etymology of proletariat, just so you know, comes from an old roman census designation for a landless citizen who fell well short of all property qualifications. And the young revolutionary identified a restrained bourgeois class that was both suffering under the fetters of feudalism and had unique power to stage a revolution. Now, when the proletariat overthrew the bourgeoisie, it would usher in a new socialist mode of production. But i will say that both marks and ingles are very vague and cagy about what this new socialist Mode of Production will look like.

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