SOCI 330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Gotha Program, Productive Forces, Feudalism
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Just to note that for marx, there is a confusion between socialism and communism. Communism is talking about a specific stage (classless stage) Says jews need to get rid of their religion to be emancipated but marx says that it will not worked. Marx has a clear understanding of the way in which history progress but asian society took an exit route and this creates problems for marx"s theory. They believed that history makes sense and that prussia is the end point of history. This is idealist representation of idealism (thoughts and ideas drive history) Marx was influenced by hegel and developed his own thoughts but the influences of hegel is evident. Talks about species essence (the life of human beings is to create meaningful product but that in the capitalist system, we are alienated from the product) He is critical of commercial society like rousseau. But marx, there is a lot of industry and economic.