Week 10: Wednesday, March 29
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873), philosopher and political economist.
Before you read the excerpt from Marx's Communist Manifesto, I very strongly encourage you to read the short piece on Blackboard entitled "Marxism for Beginners."
1) According to Mill, what exactly is nationality, and what produces it?
2) If the sentiment of nationality exists somewhere in any force, according to Mill, what must happen? Why? (This, in so many words, is the nationalist program or what nationalists believe in.)
3) Mill recognized that there are difficulties in giving a state to every nationality. What were these difficulties, and how did he propose that they be resolved? What situation presented the greatest difficulties of all?
4) According to Marx, what were the most important achievements of the bourgeoisie? What inspired them to make these achievements? At the same time, what did the bourgeoisie destroyed?
5) What kind of crisis threatened the economic world the bourgeoisie had created?
6) What revolutionary class threatened the continued domination of the bourgeoisie? Why was it revolutionary? Why was the revolution inevitable?
Other Questions
1) What was so revolutionary about nationalism as described by Mill? In what ways did it have the potential to cause great disorder?
Karl Marx (1818-1883), political economist and revolutionary.
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