Sociology 2240E Lecture Notes - Social Ownership, Dialectical Materialism, Social Change
31 Jan 2016
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Marx"s theory of history, social order and social change. All forms of social thought develop as a superstructure founded on an economic base. Each ruling class produces the class that will destroy it or replace it. History is a long process of becoming aware of what we in actuality already were in potential. Rejected individualism facts are integral parts of some totality. Moving force of history and social change was the struggle for humans to control the material world. Forces of production and the relations of production were in harmony at the beginning of mode of production. Forces of production grow to destroy the existing relations of production. Forces of production destroy the relations of production. Equal to the new value created by workers in excess of their own labour cost. Seen as profit by the capitalist once products are sold. Social ownership and democratic control of the means of production.
