SYG-1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Class Conflict, Proletariat, Economic Mobility
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The first historic act is the act of production. Ma(cid:374) as a (cid:862)spe(cid:272)ies (cid:271)ei(cid:374)g(cid:863)- a conscious being, producing the means of subsistence; and production as a conscious life-activity and a means of creative self-expression. Material laws of history are economic in nature such that the production material of life determines the character of social, political, spiritual processes. What the society was like and how it used to function (cid:858)diale(cid:272)ti(cid:272)al (cid:373)aterialis(cid:373)(cid:859) means, mode, and relations of production dialectical how things are produced in society during that day in age, means, modes of production. Property-owners & property-less workers; or (cid:858)(cid:271)ourgeois(cid:859) & (cid:858)proletariat(cid:859); or (cid:858)haves(cid:859) vs. (cid:858)have (cid:374)ot(cid:859)s (cid:858)co(cid:373)(cid:373)odifi(cid:272)atio(cid:374)(cid:859) of la(cid:271)or (cid:858) elf-alie(cid:374)atio(cid:374)(cid:859) or (cid:858)self-estra(cid:374)ge(cid:373)e(cid:374)t(cid:859) (cid:858)class i(cid:374) itself(cid:859) & (cid:858)class for itself(cid:859) The worker sinks to the level of the commodity and becomes the most wretched of all commodities. The greater the power and magnitude of his production the worse is his condition.
