ANT 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Terry Eagleton, Raymond Williams, Rationality
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The mode of exploitation may thus be thought of as the mode of production(cid:495) of the ruling class, with the understanding that the energy expended into the exploitative system is not productive. Thomas c. patterson 2009 (cid:494)marx continually refined the empirical, philosophical, and practical dimension of his lifetime. Marx argued that your relationship to the means of production objectively determined your social class. Identified two great classes in capitalist society: the bourgeoisie (upper or ruling class) those people who owned the means of production, the proletarian (working class) From this point of view, the final causes of all social changes and political revolutions are justice, but in changes in the modes of production and exchange. Components: to be sought, not in men(cid:495)s brains, not in men(cid:495)s better insights into eternal truth and. The abstract ideas people hold ideas about laws, politics, religion, etc. are determined by their relationships to the (cid:494)mode of production(cid:495)