SOCI 3692 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: For Marx, Creative Destruction, Old Ways
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Marx"s importance to sociology lies in the way that his work brought a theoretical focus to. In developing historical materialism, marx and engels laid the foundation of what was to become a broad school of sociology. He represents the epitome of the scholar- activist who is not content with criticizing the world but wants to change it. Marx"s life and intellectual outlook gross inequalities of the nascent capitalist system. theoretical system and as a journalist and social activist. Marx"s radical writings led to a charge of high treason by the prussian government in 1844. Throughout his career marx was strenuously engaged both in the development of his. Marx rejected the idea that liberal reform would be enough to redress the social crisis and. For marx, the mistake of liberal theory was that it assumed that the bourgeoisie. Where slavery was abolished workers were formally free under the law yet for marx this was.