SOCY 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: New Class, Class Conflict, The Communist Manifesto

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

Document Summary

Technological and economistic readings tend to be reductionist reduce social change to elements of the economy. They suggest history would follow certain objective laws laws dependent solely upon the. The role of the revolutionary subject is reduced, removed, or made dependent. Identified the struggle of class struggles before he wrote his preface; the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. communist manifesto. The epoch of the bourgeoisie has simplified class antagonisms into two great classes directly facing each other bourgeoisie and proletariat. Cohen argued there was more to the material forces of production: Ability to do work is irrevocably tied to human beings labour power and person are inseparable. Conceptual beings reflect on their working conditions developed a political consciousness. Conceive more broadly than work process per se. Mass of workers in factories a political force. The social, political, and intellectual processes of life overall not separate from infrastructure; linked immediately into it.