SOCI 100 Lecture 9: LECTURE 11_01_19
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Marx takes a picture of inequality and turns it into a picture of stratification, hierarchy. Equality is supposed to be side-by-side, no one ranks below or above you. In america, this was the theoretical structure. Base/foundation/structure- as the bottom of the architectural metaphor. Mode of production = the technical means of production (tools, factories, land, etc) + relations of production (class system) Can"t understand the emergence of a capital means of production if you don"t understand the class system. The social revolutions of europe were about how to change the class system so you have a sufficient number of people who own the means of production and a sufficient number of people working on it. Every society has politics, religion, law, thought, etc. (superstructure) Every society has to have a base and a superstructure. The superstructure and the base always correspond. Where hegel is wrong- hegel thought superstructure was first, but base. P. 4 marx and engels reader actually is.
