SOC 2112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Proletariat, Fetishism, For Marx
15 Sep 2016
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His most theoretically influential work was das kapital" or capital critique of political economy. Engels edited volumes 2 and 3 after marx"s death. Communist manifesto" with engels was published in 1848, german ideology" in. 1932, conditions of the working class in england", etc. Communist manifesto was marx"s attempt to mobilize the working classes (communist/socialist movements across europe). Capital is marx"s main predominant economic and political analyses of the system of capitalism. In capital (3 volumes) marx lays out all the dynamics which capitalism, as a system, is about. He tried to answer the question regarding how the capitalist mode of production operates and is reproduced. One of his key insights is what capitalism is a dynamic and unstable system. It goes through peaks of growth and recessions and crises. Marx"s thesis #11: the philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.
