POLSCI 4Q06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Proletariat, Bourgeoisie
11 Jan 2015
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Marx makes reference to 2 main/grand classes sometimes he talks about 3 those who own the land, those who own the labour modes of production; classes are not occupational groups; rather they are defined by their attributes ie people who control and people who lead classes are relational concepts; you cannot have one without the other there cannot be a slave class without a master class there are things that marxism needs to review/and stuff that does not apply the historical agent of change would be the proletariat; this is not the case anymore; there will be other social sectors that can bring about social change how politics economics and social classes are linked together marx in the communist manifesto; the executive of a modern estate is a committee in charge of managing the affairs of the entire bourgeois politics is the struggle to control the state in order to protect private property: talcott parsons.
