HUMA 1170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Corporatism, Antonio Gramsci, Chartism
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Lecture: karl marx, 1818 1883, prussian german philosopher, journalist, economist, member of britain"s international workingmen"s association, inventor scientific socialism , trier, kingdom of prussia/ german confederation, chartism, 1838 1848, britain working class movement for political reform, named for the peoples charter of 1838, began with artisans (shoemakers, tailors, artisans, etc. ) to mobilize moral force: soon became co opted by physical force chartists, like feargus o"connor who advocated violence and general strikes, capitalism is a system that sustains itself, marx"s base and superstructure, superstructure. Modern period: absolutism, imagined communities, modernity and its conceptual paradigm, marx and modernity, roman law, renaissance humanism, enlightenment ideals, contemporary economics, modernity as a stance, modernity as translation, alienation, a way of being that transcends the socio economic sphere and affects the worker at a spiritual level, commodity fetish, phenomena where commodities in their broadest sense take on a life and movement of their own to which humans, their behaviours, and their institution adapt.
