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Assignment:
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party (marxists.org) p. 28:
How do Marx and Engels characterize the evolution of working-class political consciousness?
Rudyard Kipling and Edward Dene Morel, "The White Man's Burden": Kipling's Hymn to U.S. Imperialism (gmu.edu) The White Man in Africa from the Fifteenth Century to World War I (1920):
According to Kipling, what was the burden of white people, and how does he characterize the role of Europeans in the colonies? According to Morel, how did Europeans extend their political control over Africa? What sorts of economic innovations did they implement? Why does Morel call the preservation of colonies in Africa a "criminal folly"?
Ernst Junger, The Storm of Steel (From The Diary of a German Storm-Troop Officer on the Western Front (1920):
What impact did the British bombardment have on the battle zone that Junger describes, and on the psyches of individual soldiers? In what sense is this type of warfare a product of the "Europe of today"?