SOC231H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: 7 Up, Class Consciousness, American Apparel
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Historical materialism means through history to under change, is to understand any system. We transform the environment around us, the more we produce the existing relationship cannot occur. There comes a point that production becomes too much that, slavery becomes inefficient. Certain class of people becomes to understand that there is a limited to a system. The markets become to dominate society and the feudal lords are not really for this, the serfs. Commodity is any object that has both use value and exchange value at the same time. Under capitalism everything can be sold on the market. The mode of production under capitalism tries to commodity everything, abstract though (labor power) can be commodity as well. The commodification of everything, including social relations and labor power . Hire someone for ten hours, is to make them work slightly more and make sure you get value (or extra value) in those ten hours.
