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Hi Ed,
I´ve thought you may help me. I only need a few words.
I have summarized the main points of marxist sociology *. What do you think? Is it too simple or enough?(It must be very short anyway)

I´ve been reading a lot of sociology stuff this afternoon and right now I´m sure about nothing. That´s new for me.
I´ll have to read something about your friend Durkheim, but tomorrow, I´ve had enough for today

I´ve done this :

Marxist sociology

It´s based on two concepts:
1- Economic determism: the organization of the production, the economic sub-estructure of society, determines all the super-estructure, which includes politics, economy, Law, religion, art, phylosophy, literature, science and moral.

2- Change mechanism: everything goes through a constant dialectical process that detetermines the historical process. That dialectical process is based on: afirmation or thesis, negation or antithesis and conciliation of opposites or synthesis




* It´s part of a task for a subject, Sociology of Education.


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When I am less busy, I´d like to know a bit more about something that has left me a bit puzzled: Marx said that each power system contains the seed of self-destruction, it is in the dialectic process of change (through social revolutions, etc.)
That has made me wonder where the hell are those “dialectical seeds” in the capitalist system.



take care

Sorry, sorry,
I meant: the main points of Marxism.

Sounds like a good summary to me.

The seeds of self-destruction:

Well that's all the Crisis of Capitalism and (controversial) 'emergence into communism' stuff. Capitalists are obliged to exploit workers until they are no longer able to afford the goods they produce. It's possibly a slower process than Marx envisaged - look at long-tail economics. Marx over-relied on the idea that workers would revolt as their conditions worsened, but globalisation and mass production mean that (relatively) poor workers in first world countries can be supplied with material goods produced by even poorer third world workers.

Some understanding of economics really is important to understanding Marx, I think. I don't know much, though.