POLS 1402 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Productive Forces, Political Economy, Proletariat
6 Mar 2019
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Karl marx: german philosopher, social theorist, political economist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. When first introduced, most marxists didn"t like the soviet union. Marxism has experienced a renaissance" in the past decade. Marxism is a theory of history and how society has changed over time rather than politics. Marxism is both a theory of how societies evolve and develop in history and a guide to political action. Societies materially produce and reproduce their conditions of existence. Forms and methods of labor organization key to understanding social structures. Historically-unique social structures modes of production, laws of motion . It is in each case, the direct relationship of the owners of the conditions of productionin which we find the innermost secret, the inner basis of the entire social structure (marx, das kapital) Development of the more advanced destined to show the less developed society the image of its own future" (marx) Communism would appear in the most developed societies.
