POL_S 333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Utopia, Proletariat
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Thesis on feuerbach: theory over practice practical critical activity: practice and theory, subject over nature materialism: nature and subject. Economic and philosophical manuscripts: intellectual labor over manual labor communist society: manual labor and intellectual labor. Capitol i: exchange value over use value commodity fetish (starts out from use value) (cid:1) (cid:1) How does marx reinforce hierarchical oppositions in his writings on the working class women. Marx critique: bourgeois family structures turn women into sexual objects for men. Suicides of bourgeois women: bourgeois family structures lie at the basis of capitalism. They must be destroyed to destroy capitalism. Capitalism destroys: working class men"s mind. Intellectual atrophy: working class woman"s body moral atrophy. At a certain point women need to enter the work force but it"s bad for their femininity and ruins their bodies turning them into men (cid:1) (cid:1) Imitates natural sciences (market value: deductive, based on mathematical models, aims at exact formulation, based itself on facts .
