SOSC 2350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Second Industrial Revolution, Dialectical Materialism, Structural Marxism
20 Mar 2016
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Case analysis due at beginning of class (before lecture starts) One of the most highly influential thinkers of the modern period (the 19th century: a time of industrialization, political & social upheaval & revolt, & colonialism). Philosopher, political economist, socialist & labour activist. Communist manifesto(with engels) (1847: das kapital(1867-94, outlines for a critiqueof political economy (1859) Law is not the expression of society"s common values: (i. e. society not formed or structured upon consensus) Instead societies are divided by class conflicts: the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles . The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his natural superiors," and has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous. Unlike durkheim and weber, marx did not see his sociology isolated from political action.
