SOC 1105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Gotha Program, Class Conflict, Conspicuous Consumption

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1105
• Professor: Liam Kilmurray

Document Summary

Marxism is also a theory of revolution and the basic explanation for how societies go through the process of change. Marxists believe that they and they alone have the analytical tools to understand the process of historical change, as well the key to predicting the future. As marx put it, communism is the riddle of history solved. marxists also believe that they and they alone have an empirical, scientific approach. 1859: preface to a contribution to the critique of political economy (m) Theory propounded by karl marx and friedrich engels. Some use the term to refer simply to the economic critique. Marx argued that your relationship to the means of production objectively determined your social class. Those people who owned the means of production. Classes = social groups defined by their relationship to the means of production: bourgeoisie = owners of means of production (factories, mines, large farms, etc. , proletariat = (working class) people who sell their labor to survive.