Sociology 2240E Lecture Notes - Nerd, Analgesic, Dialectic
16 Nov 2012
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During the 1780s-1820s, britain and then europe went through a period of huge technological and social change. Small workshops and workers were quickly put out of business by the new industrialists: as a result, people became factory workers. Born in trier, germany, to an (ex-)jewish middle-class family: in germany jewish people were banned from getting any prestigious job so his father converted to lutheran protestantism, becoming an attorney. He left for university but was booted out a year later for basically being a badass sex, fighting, all that fun stuff. He left to the same university that hegel attended: there he got interested in philosophy and there he read about hegel, marx was only 19 at the time. He was a journalist for a newspaper in cologne: he lost his job for supporting workers, he was fired because of the secret police. Basically marx was an academic but also a badass and not a nerd.
