SLGY 2131 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Wage Labour, Productive Forces, Dialectic
4 Feb 2017
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Central to marx"s work is that humans have individual and collective material needs. People must obtain bare necessities of life by cooperating with others and having a conscious relation with nature. Most important act is productive labor o humans transform nature to satisfy their material needs o humans create what they have imagined. Work allows humans to realize fullness of their humanity. In transforming nature through work we transform society. Productive forces are the means of production and labor power. Relations of production are the ownership or the nonownership of productions. Superstructure includes the legal/political/religious/philosophical/cultural processes and institutions of society. The economic structure of society doesn"t generate only ideas that serve capitalist interest. Social change is driven by; o contradictions between forces and relations of production. At a certain stage of development, material productive forces of society come into conflict with the o class antagonisms existing relations of productions.
