SOCI 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Class Consciousness, Historical Materialism, Proletariat
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How we divide the world: rich/poor, men/women, white/minorities, developed/undeveloped nations. Karl marx (1818-1883: activist scholar, historical materialist, with marx, everything starts with the economy (politics, religion, fashion, jobs, education, law, housing, family); it is the foundation of everything else. The economic base of society shapes its cultural superstructure. The mode of production (currently technology/coding, was factories and industrialization in marx"s time), two parts: the means of production (the mechanisms used) factory in his time, computers in ours, the social relations of production. Power dynamic, employees and employers, contrary to marx"s communist beliefs. The most important social relations of production are the class relations between the bourgeoisie (owners) and the proletariat (workers) Anything of value comes from the idea and the labour that went into making it (known as labour pyramid value) Use value: has value to you because it is useful to you, likely not to have value to others if they do not have a use for it.
