SOCI 3692 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: The Communist Manifesto, National Workshops, Economic Surplus
6 Nov 2018
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Emergence of new poverty form: mass urban poverty. With social q, it"s not obvious anymore; poverty increasing along with wealth in others. Demographic explanation: population growing faster than agriculture production (issue with distribution) 2nd republic had national workshops to give food (cid:271)ut failed (cid:272)ause ppl did(cid:374)"t (cid:449)a(cid:374)t raised ta(cid:454)es. Understand and change world many interpretations = not coherent. Theory + practice: complement one another; one makes no sense without the other. Political legacies: 20th (cid:272)e(cid:374)tur(cid:455) (cid:272)a(cid:374) fall u(cid:374)der mar(cid:454)"s i(cid:374)flue(cid:374)(cid:272)e. Immiseration thesis: rich get richer, poor get poorer. Dictatorship of proletariat: radical revolution; no capitalist class, class division/conflict; meritocracy. Product of ideal causality : most theories start with ideas. Look at reality: ppl doing things, practice is base of theory. To understand history, must understand how we meet basic needs + economic structure. Look at production mode to understand superstructure level. Direct relation of two some think yes some no. What you think = function of what you do.
