SOCI 330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Primitive Communism, Class Conflict, French Revolution
3 Dec 2016
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Outline: marx"s central apparatus many great regimes that are marxist (russia, Why did his thought have such impact: add a little bit to his basic scheme, problem for his scheme concern with asia. He wrote about the asiatic mode of production: conclusion of the professor. There are two terms: idealism: ideas/values make the world go round, materialism: humans are just natural entities. Only to be understood in biological material terms. Marx wished to get out of the either/or situation and to produce an original theory that stands in the middle. This theory is: the material conception of history. This lecture is about the material conception of history. Karl marx says that there are 5 stages in history: primitive communism, ancient societies (the world of greece and rome, feudal society, bourgeois society / capitalist, socialism. Marx makes 3 claims: the societies we live in are determined/have a character of the mode of production within which we live.
