PPAS 4070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: For Marx, Industrial Revolution, Debt Bondage

• School: York University
• Department: Public Policy and Administration Studies
• Course: PPAS 4070
• Professor: Naomi Couto

Document Summary

Was concerned with class, not concerned with gender, race. We live in a economic system/order where money = respect. Those who have money are seen as better human beings. Marx disagreed with hegel, he didn"t believe ideas changed the world, it"s the economy. Key concern: how some people effectively control the actions of others. The five epochs for marx: (forms of ownership/community: the primitive communal (tribe, slave (communal, feudal, capitalist and as a prediction of things to come, the socialist and communist phases. Social structure as an extension of family (based on age, sex or natural distinction of males and females) Political and productive form based on union of several tribes, (tribes are still distinguishable; city as difference. Property: slaves belonging to community even if some were trustees . Private property = greater inequalities in its distribution (more and more concentration in a minority) Ex: athens outlawing debt slavery, slaves could only be attained by war.