CRIM 104 Lecture 10: Crim 104 lecture 10

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 104
• Professor: Barry Cartwright

Document Summary

For marx, it was the time of the industrial revolution. Expropriation and/or dispossession through eviction and enclosure. Steam engines, cotton jenny, rolling mills, blast furnaces replacing skilled labour. All resulted in impoverished working class-surplus labour pool: factories like prisons; workers like prisoners. Marx"s contributions: not a sociologist, and didn"t write much about crime. Still most widely cited political philosopher in social sciences as recently as the 1980s. Wrote das capital and the communist manifesto. Influential in worker"s movements and ideas re: socialism and communism. Who marx influenced: simmer, bonger, vold, turk, chamliss, quinney, olatt, taylor, walton, young. Dialectical pairs positive negative: attraction repulsion, inside outside, up down, light dark, good evil, god the devil. Dialectical/historical materialism cont: slave owners slaves, landlords serfs, capitalists workers, dialectical pairs-polar opposites, depend upon each other for their existence, contradictory (opposing) interests, class struggle leads to change in socio-economic forms. Mode of production: equitable, due process, protects society, justice for all.