Soc 185M MC
French Revolution - correct answer ✔Unstable alliance of the masses and
the bourgeoisie against the aristocracy
American Civil War - correct answer ✔Very revolutionary in the sense that it
was not just about political factions but a radical redistribution of property
1848 Revolutions - correct answer ✔Multiple democratic uprisings against
monarchies across Europe
Led to first open conflict between workers and bourgeosie
Paris Commune - correct answer ✔France's defeat against Prussia creates
enough anarchy in France so that the workers are able to briefly take over the
means of production and create the closest thing to communism
Idealism - correct answer ✔Sees ideas as having a "life of their own" in
shaping societies.
Dialectics - correct answer ✔History progresses through a progressive series
of clashes between opposites, kind of like a conversation in which progress is
made through the contradiction
Negativity - correct answer ✔An aspect of Hegelian dialectics
Creative movement or critique that contradicts what is already existing in
society order to build something better through process of first negation and
then 2nd or absolute negation
French Revolution - correct answer ✔Unstable alliance of the masses and
the bourgeoisie against the aristocracy
American Civil War - correct answer ✔Very revolutionary in the sense that it
was not just about political factions but a radical redistribution of property
1848 Revolutions - correct answer ✔Multiple democratic uprisings against
monarchies across Europe
Led to first open conflict between workers and bourgeosie
Paris Commune - correct answer ✔France's defeat against Prussia creates
enough anarchy in France so that the workers are able to briefly take over the
means of production and create the closest thing to communism
Idealism - correct answer ✔Sees ideas as having a "life of their own" in
shaping societies.
Dialectics - correct answer ✔History progresses through a progressive series
of clashes between opposites, kind of like a conversation in which progress is
made through the contradiction
Negativity - correct answer ✔An aspect of Hegelian dialectics
Creative movement or critique that contradicts what is already existing in
society order to build something better through process of first negation and
then 2nd or absolute negation
