SOC231H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Friedrich Engels, German Idealism, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Materials and tools used to create a product. Those groups of individuals sharing a common position in relation to ownership of means of production. Sets out his philosophical framework- progression of history and change. Stages of development in different kind of societies. Not clear how it would actually look like. 1% vs 99% would have working class overise. Machinations must be worked out to the full extent. Must occur as world historical event- global. Prediction of emergence- most elaborate capitalist state. At the time was england, france, germany, united states. Critique of german idealism- analysis should begin with material conditions not. German philosophy descend from heaven to earth while we descend from earth to heaven. How people are thinking of their everyday life and go about changing it. Not grand concepts that drive history, but material conditions that affect how people think. Class position determines the way we think about problems.
