IRG 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Primitive Communism, Making Money, Materialism
8 May 2016
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Society for the abolition of the slave trade. States want to build empires, expand wealth, a realist idea. Create a free trade system to create wealth, a liberal idea. Capitalism is not just an economic system, it"s a culture. Materialism, changes aren"t from ideas, but from economic structural factors: karl marx and marxism, alternative approach, doesn"t fit in the three theories. Slaveries role in capitalism, and the theory it fits best in (materialism?) Max weber: famous articles on the spirit of capitalism, important to understand where capitalism emerged (england) and why did it. (trade, resources, ect. ) Predestination, god likes it when you work, raise work as a godly task. Working hard and having wealth are also godly. Karl marx: flip idealism on its head. Forces of production, the relationship between work and labor. Marx develops an elaborate idea of how changes in the relationship between these relationships will move history.
