ECON 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Council Communism, Bourgeoisie, Human Nature
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Marxism: refusal to think of itself as an ideology, stands for the governing or hegemonic patterns of law, culture, religion, philosophy, etc. All components that reflect society: different interpretation of the term ideology than ours, components of marxism, dialectical conception of knowledge consistent. Every element carries with it its history and its potential future. The inner nature of things is changing and contradictory, not fixed and. Is and is not coexist: hegelian influence: history is the unfolding development of the world"s spirit, and philosophy is this world"s spirit"s recognition of itself. Slave society: emergence on a sedentary society that is based on farming with an organised religion, social hierarchy, slavery, inequality between men and women, inequality between humans and animals: new social system: feudalism. Agriculture is mostly handled by serfs, medieval, celestial hierarchy parallels their material organisation of production, no notion of social change, privileges and extra rights of upper class are god given (e. g. divine right of the king)
