SOCI 254 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Noam Chomsky, Economic Rationalism, Political Economy
9 Feb 2018
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Friday, january 19, 2018: fair wages for labourers. Friday, january 19, 2018: main premises of marx"s theory of history, productive forces (e. g. technology) tend to develop, economic structure is explained by development of productive forces, economy comes rst, marx"s ve stage theory of history. Marx"s five stage theory of history: primitive communalism, ancient society, feudal society, capitalist society, communist society (yet to come) Idealism vs. materialism: the importance of economic drivers. De nition of marxist terms: means of production, the things which are needed for people to produce goods, example = equipment, land, crops, etc, relations of production: Labour and capital under capitalism: bourgeoisie vs. proletariat, exploitation and alienation, crisis of capitalism, relevance of marx. Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism (1905-1920: weber"s capitalism, booty vs. rational bourgeois, what is unique to the west, spirit of capitalism, open-ended accumulation, denial of grati cation. !5: elective af nity between protestant ethnics and spirit of capitalism.
