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...ures class domination; proletariat = majority C. Under/Overestimated proletariat’s ability Nomothetic? Exaggerates – Marx = “economic determinist” Wrong predictions Sophisticated Stratification system UNEWS Question 2 • Capitalism denies people’s human nature – we should “live to work, not work to live.” • “species-being” i.e. human nature in terms of labor, we produce only our immediate needs or those of our young live to work not work to live • material world makes/moves human history toward ideas • economic base – superstructure/ideas • Mode of production 3 forces of production: labor power, means of production, raw materials of production = “wage slaves.” • “Estranged labor”/wage-slaves becoming a product/commodity of your labor, alienating us from our own nature – our being and intellectual capacities; bourgeoisie makes important determinations of product therefore demoralizing/dehumanizing proletariat can’t perform our inherent functions of a species-being • Alienation – from product, coworkers, and inner self-being • Class struggle – changes in the material base = changes in the political and ideological superstructure; socialism/communism i.e. material world makes ideas? MACE CEMS Question 3 • Secures class domination i.e. system of ideas which expresses the interests of the dominant class rids society’s true nature • Capitalism is produced and considered “natural” ...