SCS 1160 Lecture : Class 12. Marx.docx
16 Mar 2012
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Born 1818 in germany; died in england in 1883. The worker will be poor under the communist and the worker will always become poorer is marx"s idea. The capitalist might become richer but the average person will become poorer. Salaries were uncommon (20% had a salary) in the late 18th century to the majority of people having a salary in the middle of the 19th century. Working for someone who has money, a factory, tools, the equipment needed for production. Before industrialization (1700"s), apprentices began 12-15 year olds cotton picking etc. , working for 1/6 the wage of an adult. Written in 1848 crucial year in european history because it was the year revolutions break out. Marxist thinking: substructure: the actual way we build things, the economic reality (guts of society). Based on the means and mode of production, the way we organize our tools: superstructure: the political expression of the social relations that are required by the substructure.
