Political Science 2237E Lecture : Inside the Machinery of Capitalism with Karl Marx - February 6th
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; fundamental primes of every society) and superstructure (determined by the base: forms of government, politics, social relations, religious forms, cultural forms, system of education, etc: every period of history has a different mode of production each has different forces and different relations of production, master and slave, surfs and landlord, proletariat and bourgeoisie, key: for marx, man is fundamentally a productive animal (not a political one like. However, marx does not go into depth in acknowledging the positives of capitalism more of just a criticism: change is built into the system, but it is also the responsibility of the citizen to rise in consciousness, and push for that change, marx summons the critical theorist like no one before him it takes on a systematic form, responsible for pushing forward transformation, marx was very keen on the social effects of the industrial revolution (so was.