SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: The Communist Manifesto, Proletariat, Commodity Fetishism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Liam Kilmurray

Document Summary

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle". In other words everything you know is wrong! According to marx we think and believe the way we do because we are products of the mode of production (ie. we are all products of capitalism . Died 1883 in london having only written 3 of the planned 8 volumes of das kapital. All kids died before him (starvation or suicide) Marxism extended to areas unchanted by any of marx"s writings. Marx argued that your relationship to the means of production objectively determines your social class. Identified two great classes in capitalist society: the bourgeoisie (upper or ruling class) Those people who owned the means of production: the proletariat (working class) Das kapital (capital): a critical analysis of capitalist production vol. 1 (1867) The raw material serves now merely as an absorbent of a definite quantity of labour .