PSCI 2302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: False Consciousness, Opiate, Proletariat

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: PSCI 2302
• Professor: Kathlean Fitzpatrick

Document Summary

Lecture 9 marx part 1: historical materialism. Critique of philosophy : the bourgeois revolutions of the enlightenment had failed to produce the. Turning hegel on his head: marx was a student of hegel and took much from his philosophy; the focus on. History as the starting point of social and political analysis: for hegel; man"s spiritual nature was the subject of history; the idea of. Freedom was realizing itself in time through human activity; man produces his own self-consciousness: for hegel; thought-thinking-itself and its ultimate realization in philosophical self-awareness embodied in the liberal constitutional state represented the. End of history : for marx; history could not be complete while the working class remained estranged, exploited and un-free; human history had yet to realize its final phase; the movement from capitalism to socialism. Man"s social and material nature: capitalism reifies its own social relations and reads them back in to history;