SOCI 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Free Market, The German Ideology
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The critical attitude of marx"s professors got them into trouble -> influenced marx to be more radical. Marx prizes those things that ordinary citizens of his time would prize. Marx became more and more critical of civil society. Human beings had a right to freedom from political control. Humans with resources can do whatever they want, while those who do not have resources will continue to be exploited. There is a freedom but also an unfreedom for a majority of the population. We want to look at the most basic reality of what humans are right. Human beings are the only species that make their own form of subsistence. We must look at humans as they labor -> look at economists. All wealth is a product of humans laboring. What humans are really selling is themselves. Humans must sell their labor to work, laborers are not free.
