SOCIOL 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: The German Ideology, The Communist Manifesto, Petite Bourgeoisie
4 Oct 2016
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Conflict theory: society is grounded upon inequality and competition. Rooted in the writings of machiavelli, hobbs, and rousseau. Karl marx: 1818-1883: key concepts, class, bourgeoisie, proletariat, forces and relations of production, capital, alienation, exploitation, class consciousness. Reference a number of key classical works in the lecture: the german ideology (1845-46, economic and philosophic manuscripts of 1844. Alienated labor (will extend in lecture 20: the communist manifesto (1848) Karl marx: dialectics: a way of seeing history and society as the result of oppositions, contradictions, and tensions from which social change can emerge. Consciousness can never be anything else than conscious existence, and the existence of men is their actual life-process marx. Proletariat: wage laborers who own no property which is capable of producing income, they only have their labor to sell. Lower middle class/ petty bourgeoisie: small manufacturers, self-employed craft and trades people. Lumen proletariat: social scum: his focus: inequality, power, control, and conflict.
