Sociology 2266A/B Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Dialectic, Materialism, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
26 Jul 2020
School
Department
Course
Professor
Karl Marx
Life:
• Born in Germany 1818
• Jewish émigré a wit and hightly educated
• Last renaissance man
• Young Hegelain (radical followers of Hegel, critical of religion)
• 1842- he was a newspaper editor
Works:
• Early-economic and philosophical manuscript- alienation
• Preface to a critique of political economy
• Capital (book)- 3 volumes
• Newspaper articles and political commentary
• Active in revolutionary movements in England France Belgium and Germany
Synthesis of influences
• Philosophical idealist
o Concept of dialectic (clash of opposing forces)
• French socialism
o Saint simon
o Fourier
• British economists
o Adam Smith
Alienation- Young Marx the humanist
• Cause is wage-labour and private property
• 4 aspects of alienation for wage labourer
o From product of labour
o From productive activity
o From species- being
o Fellow man (society)
Materialistic conception of history
• Turning hegel on his head
o From idealism to materialism
• Historical materialism= methodological approach of Marxism histography that
focuses on human societies and their development over time
• Materialism and producing things is primary consideration in history
The law for motion of the capitalist mode of production
• Capitalist’s compultion to accumulate
• Tendency towards constant technological revolution
• Tendency towards growing concentration and centralisation of capital
• The capitalists’ unquenchable thirst for surplus- value extraction
Document Summary
Jewish migr a wit and hightly educated: born in germany 1818, last renaissance man, young hegelain (radical followers of hegel, critical of religion, 1842- he was a newspaper editor. Works: early-economic and philosophical manuscript- alienation, preface to a critique of political economy, capital (book)- 3 volumes, newspaper articles and political commentary, active in revolutionary movements in england france belgium and germany. Synthesis of influences: philosophical idealist, concept of dialectic (clash of opposing forces, french socialism, saint simon, fourier, british economists, adam smith. Alienation- young marx the humanist: cause is wage-labour and private property, 4 aspects of alienation for wage labourer, from product of labour, from productive activity, from species- being, fellow man (society) The law for motion of the capitalist mode of production: capitalist"s compultion to accumulate, tendency towards constant technological revolution, tendency towards growing concentration and centralisation of capital, the capitalists" unquenchable thirst for surplus- value extraction.
