SOC 2112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: The Communist Manifesto, Wage Labour, Commodity Market
28 Nov 2016
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More of a human writer snarky and sarcastic, more relatable: comparison to durkheim who was disconnected. Das kapital or capital (critique of political economy) vol 1 (1867) Volumes 2 (!885) and 3 (1894) edited by engels after marxs death (8 volumes originally planned) Communist manifesto (with fredrich engels)(1848: political pamphlet, specific audience in mind, not writing to general public. He writes to other political economists people who know the terms and ideas he is talking about: sometimes criticized as a naive prediction of the future. German ideology: written in 1860"s remained undiscovered until 1932. Fredrich engels the condition of the working class in england in 1844: in depth description of the conditions workers lived in, in large industrial cities like manchester. Core of his thinking and his theory of political economy. Historically specific has not been around forever. Relatively new thing having profound impacts on certain locations. It"s a unique political-economic system: compared to the lack of industrialization before.
