SOC 2106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Utopia, Proletariat, Teleology
Document Summary
A middle class, which is neither bourgeois nor proletariat, has emerged and has increased in numbers proportionally (very prominent in the first world, less so but still influential in the third world) Poverty has grown more brutal and extreme at the very bottom of the world"s population but more benign elsewhere. Teleology it is an error to think there is an endpoint of human history, which is pre-determined socialism is not inevitable, nothing is inevitable, its realization depends upon human activity. View expressed by lukacs and some other later marxists but not marx himself the essence of the general form of contradiction is to be found at each moment and in each aspect of the system. Marx himself and all marxists have some kind of vision of the world"s improvement. Marx and marxism intentionally unspecific about future organisation of society to be specific about it is to be un-scientific because we lack the information necessary to draw up such blueprints.
