SOCI 330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Asiatic Mode Of Production, Young Hegelians, Capital, Volume I

• School: McGill University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 330
• Professor: Lindsay John

Document Summary

Focus is on: marx, smith, and tocqueville (so not montesquieu and rousseau) His early works are mainly philosophical and political commentaries on the. Talks about alienation (an important concept in marx) which first comes up in this part. The atheist man is arguing that jews need to get rid of their religion to be emancipated. Marx is saying that this will not work. He says what is needed is human emancipation. We get materialist marx builds on ideas and theses of feuerbach. (cid:373)ai(cid:374)l(cid:455) talki(cid:374)g a(cid:271)out (cid:373)ate(cid:396)ialist (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)eptio(cid:374) of histo(cid:396)(cid:455). He builds on the materialist conception of history further in german ideology. Talks about the above concept again here. (cid:455)ou"ll fi(cid:374)d the asiati(cid:272) (cid:373)ode of p(cid:396)odu(cid:272)tio(cid:374) he(cid:396)e (cid:894)(cid:449)hi(cid:272)h (cid:272)(cid:396)eates so(cid:373)e problems for his theory) Marx has a clear understanding of the way in which history progresses. He says capitalism will inevitably fall apart and there are various reasons for it. He says it will not solve any problems.