POL_S 333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Reading Capital, Bourgeoisie, Class Conflict
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Social scientists are subject to bourgeois ideology and blinded by it: intervenes with their scientific practice (falsifies their objects, theories, and methods) Solution: social scientists in need of marx"s theory to become scientific. Workers understand capital easily: speaks in scientific terms to their everyday reality, explains the exploitation they suffer because of capitalism, applied marx"s concepts to their concrete situation. Organization for economic struggle (trade unions) and political (cid:1) struggle (socialist, communist parties) Ideological political difficulty: 2 sorts of readers. Who experience capitalist exploitation (proletarian wage laborers) Who do not experience capitalist exploitation (scholars, ruled by bourgeois ideology) Theoretical difficulty: those trained in theory should have no problems with capital and those not trained should have problems reading it, paradox: those not trained in theory had no problems reading. Proletarians: have an idea of marx"s thought; result of experience in trade unions and political organizations more or less correct.
