POLS 250 Study Guide - Final Guide: Productive Forces, Wage Labour, Labour Power
11 Apr 2017
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Context of dual revolutions of the political french revolution and the economic industrial. Hegel"s view of history inspired marx emphasis on the development of world spirit: Primitive consciousness in the orient but no awareness of difference from danger. 1: humans apart from nature in classical greece, christianity makes human aware of being superior to nature. History is the history of human industry undergoes growth in productive power. Stimulus of which is economic structure perishes when there is more growth than it can maintain. Historical materialism: primacy of material means different things: Basic materialism: material needs fulfilled before other forms of life can exist. Synchronic materialism: material life limits the possibility of non-material life. Base/superstructure: the base if what everything is built on, the economic system of society (eg. capitalism), the superstructure is the institutions arising from it. Relations of production are those of effective ownership and hold between either person and person or person and productive forces.
