ANTH 3690 Lecture Notes - Karl Polanyi, Kinship Terminology, Civitas
13 Sep 2013
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The ever increasing uniformity of work and concentration of workers results in growing solidarity among the proletariats. In this way the efforts of the bourgeoisie to rationalize production further sets the ground for its own destruction. Unions are formed but eventually it becomes a class structure. Elements of the bourgeoisie join the proletariats and national distinctions are dissolved. What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own gravediggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable (29) Logic based on the hegelian thesis-antithesis (evoke contradiction)-synthesis. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but their social existence that determines their consciousness. Not a simple direct relationship between cause and effect. Predicting the fall of the bourgeoisie (not happened today yet) We can work together for our common interests. Two opposing explanations of why we have a certain cultural or social configuration.
