PP110 Lecture Notes - Sweatshop, Call Centre, Class Consciousness
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General definition of determinism: everything that happens is caused, and that the effect must be just the way it is in virtue of its particular cause. Everything must happen the way that it is. This is the denial that anything is free in the universe. Example: pool shot the speed and trajectory are determined by the ball. Each stage in the historical evolution of human societies is a determined product of what came before it and the whole thing is progressing toward some final state. 2 facets of marxist determinism: synchronic: the structure of social relations at any given time considered as a snapshot . Economic base = who controls the means of production (land, factories, etc). Religion (example 1): regarding religion and economic suffering marx says: religion is the sign of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions.
