SOCY 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Proletariat, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Productive Efficiency

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 122
• Professor: Rob Beamish

Document Summary

W4l1 socy 122 karl marx: development of his. Development of marx"s ideas (political economy; german idealism) 1859 preface, towards the critique of political economy. Using human reason, human can escape from darkness of ignorance, religious dogma o. Enlightenment legacy three approaches to knowledge: o o. Descartes, newton, locke, bacon, hume and the natural sciences. Sociology - should be considered science like rest. Hume, ferguson, smith, stewart, mill, ricardo, say and political economy. Wrote a lot of his ideas about social world around him. Becomes editor for paper > radical at the time > b/c promoting democratic. Paper shut down (forced to leave germany); marx to paris. Marx/ruge"s jahrb cher; engels" outlines; hess"s essence of money . 1844 critique of hegel"s rechtsphilosophie [philosophy of right] proletariat. Conclusion based on philosophical critique and analysis combined with social reality. Goes through philosophy or right > look at empirical world of germany and france.