SOC 2112 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Bourgeoisie, Productive Forces, Proletariat

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2112
• Professor: Joseph Sawan

Document Summary

Marx: alienation, historical materialism & economic critique: when marx was buried his good friend engels provided a speech in order to summarize his great contribution to the discipline of sociology. Mankind is not something god created, i(cid:374)stead god is a (cid:373)a(cid:374)"s p(cid:396)odu(cid:272)t, thus the opposite. God is po(cid:396)t(cid:396)a(cid:455)ed as e(cid:448)e(cid:396)(cid:455)thi(cid:374)g that (cid:449)e as hu(cid:373)a(cid:374)"s a(cid:396)e (cid:374)ot. The o(cid:374)l(cid:455) (cid:449)a(cid:455) to eli(cid:373)i(cid:374)ate alienation is to return to a state of proper reality. He simply wants us to see the true relationship, but also making sure we are not ruled by god: for marx, the bourgeoisie society is blind of actual reality. The working class does not see everything they have in fact created and now exist within their society due to their work. The historical materialism: ma(cid:396)(cid:454)" (cid:448)ie(cid:449) of alie(cid:374)atio(cid:374) to(cid:449)a(cid:396)ds histo(cid:396)i(cid:272)al (cid:373)ate(cid:396)ialis(cid:373) is i(cid:374) di(cid:396)e(cid:272)t (cid:272)o(cid:374)f(cid:396)o(cid:374)tatio(cid:374) of. Feuerback who thinks his critique did not go in enough depth.