POL101Y1 Lecture : The Radical Response
30 Nov 2010
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Twin revolutions 16th-19th centuries, agricultural and industrial. Agricultural revolution: may be hyperbole to use the word revolution here. Produced huge changes in domestic consumption patterns. Luxuries came to be seen as mere decencies" and decencies came to be seen as necessities. Distribution highly uneven but now creation of middle class that had risen from manual labor. Industrial revolution: social results: capacity to produce surplus, increasing complexity of division of labour, new forms of social consciousness. What kind of food they eat, alcohol they drink? www. notesolution. com. Feuerbach and critique of german idealism (hegel) God did not create man, man created god. But for marx: this doesn"t go far enough. You must go to the material causes. Marx disagrees: consciousness does not create being, being creates consciousness . History unfolds due to changing material conditions. Humans make their own means of survival.
