GEOG 1280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 52: Proletariat, Bourgeoisie
17 May 2017
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Primitive community hunt and gather or swidden (simple agriculture) Slave state groups of free people and enslaved people. Relations of production: marxism assists us to ask tough questions about our society criticism with a critical eye. The worker becomes all the poorer the more wealth he produces, the more his production increases in power and range. The worker becomes an ever cheaper commodity the more commodities he creates. With the increasing value of the world of things proceeds in direct proportion to the devaluation of the world of men. Labour produces not only commodities; it produces itself and the worker as a commodity and does so in the proportion in which it produces commodities generally. Economic geographers identified economic problems and analyzed them in their own value terms. The way we think about and analyze economic problems also depends on our world view. We can recognize three competing viewpoints: conservative, liberal, radical.
