SOCIOL 2S06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Prison Notebooks, Economic Determinism, Proletarian Revolution
9 Mar 2016
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Attempts to reinterpret, revise or update marx"s theoretical ideas so that they better explain developments in capitalists societies: approaches within early neo-marxian theory. There were at least three different theoretical approaches during 50 year period: economic determinism. Was the assumption that the economic system shapes all other aspects of society ex. The economic determines the political and ideological: its impact on neo-marxism. The early neo-marxists saw the breakdown of capitalism as inevitable. There were processes built right into the economic structure of capitalism would eventually lead to the end of capitalism. Capitalist economy would self-destruct and destroy itself. Economic determinism: this was the assumption that the economic system shapes all other aspects of society such as the political system, ideological system. The economic determines the political and the ideological: the impact on neo-marxism: 1889-1914. The early neo marxists who subscribed to economic determinism saw the breakdown of capitalism as inevitable.
