SOCIOL 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Orthodox Marxism, Proletariat, Economic Determinism
20 Apr 2016
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Origins of the type of society we live in presently - how different types of inequality emerged and evolved throughout time key concepts historical development transition from feudalism to capitalism. Key concepts from marx"s theory of capitalism the social base of production the material foundation of society class capital / productive property working class (proletariat) capital class (bourgeoisie) primitive accumulation / dispossession exploitation. Marxist and non-marxist literature misinterpretations / distortions (intentional and unintentional) by those who tried to explain marx"s writings vulgar marxism was what true marxists called these explanations. Anti-marxist literature critiques of marx"s work based on the misinterpretations. Academics uninterested in marx"s work but need to refer to it academics teaching about marx whose knowledge of marx is based on the critiques above those who study marx are called marxists Marx wrote about change and how society should change/how society should be a lot of critiques arent based on marxs writing but on the interpretations on.
