● Marx’s Ideal (Infrastructure) economy materialistic relation of production
- Reconcile freedom, equality and material prosperity
- Historical materialism is the record of increasing mastery by humans over our
environment (progressive history)
- Free humans by transformation of systems
- Not only emancipated materially but social constraints
- Theory of capitalism is just one instance of a broader theory of historical materialism
- For history to progress, conflict must ensue (dialectic) “ history is a series of class
struggles”
● Superstructure
- A distorted representation of infrastructure
- A distorted mirror image
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● Immanent critique: method of discussing culture which aims to locate
contradictions in society's rules and systems within the ideology
● Infrastructure and superstructure
● Althusser
● Ideological state apparatuses shape the way we act and think (education system)
● Social revolution vs political revolution (emancipation)
● If socialism equals communism then you are saying that conservatism is facism
and so it is important to understand the importance of language in the
conversation
● To the point that this is the way it is exactly the problem. The way it is benefits
those at the top of the hierarchy and silences/oppressed the rest of us as
● In elementary school we made a charts with wants and needs (food, water,
shelter) this is a LITERAL NEED it is not up for debate
- Reconcile freedom, equality and material prosperity
- Historical materialism is the record of increasing mastery by humans over our
environment (progressive history)
- Free humans by transformation of systems
- Not only emancipated materially but social constraints
- Theory of capitalism is just one instance of a broader theory of historical materialism
- For history to progress, conflict must ensue (dialectic) “ history is a series of class
struggles”
● Superstructure
- A distorted representation of infrastructure
- A distorted mirror image
-
● Immanent critique: method of discussing culture which aims to locate
contradictions in society's rules and systems within the ideology
● Infrastructure and superstructure
● Althusser
● Ideological state apparatuses shape the way we act and think (education system)
● Social revolution vs political revolution (emancipation)
● If socialism equals communism then you are saying that conservatism is facism
and so it is important to understand the importance of language in the
conversation
● To the point that this is the way it is exactly the problem. The way it is benefits
those at the top of the hierarchy and silences/oppressed the rest of us as
● In elementary school we made a charts with wants and needs (food, water,
shelter) this is a LITERAL NEED it is not up for debate
