SOC102H1 Lecture : Second Lec
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karl marx discusses social class, and has invented the concept as it today. bourgeoisie higher, capitalist class with power. history is the history of class struggle and ideological clashing. a capitalist society is characterized by conflict, not harmony. In industrial societies, capitalism divides the population into two opposing classes. The working class has only three alternatives: to cooperate with the capitalists, to form unions and t ry to modify social conditions, to make revolutions. If one needs to eat to live, they need to work for someone else. the elemental fact is that everyone needs to eat to live. whoever controls the means of production which enables people to work to survive, they have immense power, enough to control life or death. In every society, marx and engles argue that everyone"s position in society is based upon their means of production; but means of productions can change over time.
