SOC 3126 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Political Economy, For Marx, Proletariat

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3126
• Professor: John Ngobi

Document Summary

Forces of producion: knowledge is also a producive power. Social relaions are producive inequaliies: paterns of efecive power over the producion process and over the total social relaions. Hegel argued that the society is chaoic because everyone has a diferent interest. In order to get organizaion, you need the state. The poliical economist ay no there is not chaos, in fact you have individuals who are raional, and calculate their interest. Marx, this struggle of interest in poliical economist is really not a problem. Marx uses this to show that interest should be seen in terms of calculaing conscious decisions. Main points of the theory of the state. The state has no more purpose for marx, it arises out of conlict. Marx is saying is the idea of relaive scarcity. One group is going to produce more than the others, because of the high producivity, at a certain point in history society is going to be divided into classes.