Karl Marx (1818-1885)
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- Karl Marx (1818-1885)
- Intro
- Founder of sociology
- Looks at exploitative nature of capitalism
- "Spiritual father of communism"
- Wrote the "Philosophical Manuscripts" (1844)
- Historical Context
- Georg Hegel
- German philosopher
- Understood things in terms of wider web of relationships
- Humans physical needs are the causal forces in human history
- Humanistic approach that Marx adapted
- Classical Political Economy of the 18th Century
- Emergence of the "commercial civilisation"
- "Invisible hand" of the market- not interfered with by the state
- Georg Hegel
- Main Ideas
- Materialist interpretation society and the forces channelling individual actions
- Material conditions of how we think and feel
- Human nature which realises itself through creative fulfilment or human potential through productive work/labour
- If the ability to produce labour is taken away, we cannot fulfil our potential and we become alienated
- Workers sink to the level of their commodity= their labour
- Enstrangement= seperate, "cut off"
- Alienation= A state of disruption having lost control of labour
- 4 types f alienation: Product, Production, Themselves, Other workers
- Materialist interpretation society and the forces channelling individual actions
- Quotes- Marx (1844)
- "Product of labour= Alien being, as a power independent of the producer"
- "Objectification of labour and loss of reality of the worker"
- Worker "looses reality to the point of starvation"
- Critisisms
- Marx work only applies to working class, white men
- Only focuses on Western European economy
- Intro
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