Identity and Society
Monday, 17 April 2023 12:33
Module 1: Karl Marx's Theory of historical materialism Homework or Announcements:
Part 1 Thu 6-7
Lecture Main topics:
KARL MARX
○ Wrote communist manifesto (1848 (year of revolutions))
With Friedrich Engels
Influential thinker of the modern world
He had a BIG theory
''The history of all hitherto existing society is the Example of a
grand, general or
History of class struggles.''- Karl Marx
universal theory
-if you want to understand history you have to understand its (e.g. Karl Marx
struggles between groups within the society believes that his
-what drives history is struggle over material things theory is the
(valuable) (German philosopher Hegel believed that its answer to
ideas that change the world) everything)
-who controls material things? Who control things that
makes things? Who controls the means of production?
AMILCAR CABRAL
Marxist
African Anti-colonial leader
''people are not fighting for ideas, they are fighting to win
material benefits.''
Class struggle of conflict
Class struggle- struggle between capitalist and workers
However it is only one form of class struggle (the one associated
with capitalism) Marx, sees class struggle as a driving force in all
historical periods before and beyond capitalism.
Marx's periodization of history
Primitive communism
(hunter gatherers)
Limited social hierarchies
Conflict is limited
Slavery
Slave owners and slaves
Feudalism
Lords and serfs
Capitalism
Capitalists and worker (bourgeoisie and proletariat)
Social leading to communism
Dictatorship of the proletariat and the end of class struggle
Class utopia
Identity and Society Page 1
Monday, 17 April 2023 12:33
Module 1: Karl Marx's Theory of historical materialism Homework or Announcements:
Part 1 Thu 6-7
Lecture Main topics:
KARL MARX
○ Wrote communist manifesto (1848 (year of revolutions))
With Friedrich Engels
Influential thinker of the modern world
He had a BIG theory
''The history of all hitherto existing society is the Example of a
grand, general or
History of class struggles.''- Karl Marx
universal theory
-if you want to understand history you have to understand its (e.g. Karl Marx
struggles between groups within the society believes that his
-what drives history is struggle over material things theory is the
(valuable) (German philosopher Hegel believed that its answer to
ideas that change the world) everything)
-who controls material things? Who control things that
makes things? Who controls the means of production?
AMILCAR CABRAL
Marxist
African Anti-colonial leader
''people are not fighting for ideas, they are fighting to win
material benefits.''
Class struggle of conflict
Class struggle- struggle between capitalist and workers
However it is only one form of class struggle (the one associated
with capitalism) Marx, sees class struggle as a driving force in all
historical periods before and beyond capitalism.
Marx's periodization of history
Primitive communism
(hunter gatherers)
Limited social hierarchies
Conflict is limited
Slavery
Slave owners and slaves
Feudalism
Lords and serfs
Capitalism
Capitalists and worker (bourgeoisie and proletariat)
Social leading to communism
Dictatorship of the proletariat and the end of class struggle
Class utopia
Identity and Society Page 1
