PHIL 335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Political Philosophy, Class Conflict, Materialism
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Marx thinks of power on the level of the individual, and on the social level! It"ll all come out of his view of thinking of economic activity. Right now, we"re in this definite mode of social organization. Take human beings as they are, as they find them. Political relationships, without actually penetrating the real existence of human beings. Marx has a sort of materialist expectation of change. Political theory - a thing where we have a certain idea of how we should arrange values, rules. Where if we disagree, we instigate a change. And change, historically speaking, comes from our head. Marx thinks that the material movements are what carries our history. A lot of liberal theories take human nature to be fixed . We need institutions to help those people. Liberal theories take human nature as it is in capitalism, and then think through what political institutions come from that.