SOC 473 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Relation, Surplus Labour, The Communist Manifesto

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 473
• Professor: Chris Powell

Document Summary

Marx- main concepts historical materialism (aka the materialist method of history") class: bourgeois (capitalist) and proletarian (worker) Mode of production: means and relations of production alienation, species-being exploitation, value, exchange-value, necessary labour, surplus labour, surplus value commodity fetishism. The first premise of all human history is, of course, the existence of living human individuals. Thus the first fact to be established is the physical organization of these individuals and their consequent relation with the rest of nature. The production of ideas, of conceptions, of consciousness, is at first directly interwoven with the material activity and the material intercourse of men, the language of real life. Conceiving, thinking, the mental intercourse of men, appear [initially] as the direct efflux of their material behaviour. The same applies to mental production as expressed in the language of politics, laws, morality, religion, metaphysics, etc. , of a people.