SOC 2112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Friedrich Engels, The German Ideology, Pierre Bourdieu
2 Mar 2016
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Das kapital or capital (critique of political economy) vol 1 (1867) Volumes 2 (18850 and 3 (1894) edited by engels after marx"s death (8 volume originally planned) Friedrich engels the condition of the working class in england in 1844 . *his method of analysis is dialectic not causal i. e. he wants us to grasp the relations between different aspects of the system. How the capitalist mode of production operates and is reproduced: it"s a unique political-economic system, a dynamic and unstable system. He is analyzing it as a global system. The form of things (commodities) change as they move around and through the system. Thesis viii: all social life is essentially practical. All mysteries which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of this practice : capitalism as a system is reproduced through the everyday activities of individuals.
