SOCY 122 Lecture Notes - Eduard Bernstein, Orthodox Marxism, Moses Hess

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 122
• Professor: Prof.

Document Summary

Went to university of bon and then shipped to berlin where involved with left wing students. Wrote a piece that got him kicked out of university, couldn"t get professor job. Got newspaper job, forced to take ideas about hegel and confront the real world. Midst of debates that he realized this is more than philosophical issue but more of a social issue. No longer abstract philosopher, is someone that is beginning to engage intellectually and politically with the world in which he lives. Newspaper becomes too radical, gov"t shuts it down and fires marx. Marx was happy that he was fired because he can study, root to engagement with new philosophy and social thought. Marx realizes that the class that will create social change is the working class (proletariat) < key class. Now focuses upon political economy, class formation, class conflict, dynamic of history.