SOC231H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Class Consciousness, Social Change, Friedrich Engels
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Karl marx & frederick engels: classes, class-struggle and social change. Calhoun: marx and engels manifesto of the communist party . Historical materialism: method/perspective for understanding social change. Not a formula for predicting the future. Marx (1859): the mode of production of material life determines the general character of the social, political and spiritual processes of life. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being determines their consciousness. At a certain stage of their development, the material forces of production in society come in conflict with the existing relations of production. From forms to development of the forces of production these relations turn into their fetters. Then occurs a period of social revolution. speaks about theory and social change by the perspective of marx. He is for capitalism because it gives freedom to people but against bc it is a barrier to change (he is mostly for it, though)
