These factors include communication, proximity of people, solidarity, organizations, widespread revolutionary fervor and commitment, desire for fulfilment of individual and collective interests, moral integrity, organizational skills, some social theory, and perhaps widespread awareness of some basic views....
For an extended analysis of Marx’s examination of the struggle over the Factory Acts and their relevance to his theory of the state see (Booth1978). As Sayer also notes Marx did not pursue the ways in which the Acts create gendered categories of labor and citizenship, (Sayer19911976 As Ma...
(Probably a reasonable theory, but as I said, algorithms get tweaked sometimes). And yet, that post that racked up 50K views? The one I’d just pushed out without thinking about it? It was a share. I just went through it, found a few points I connected with, tried to articulate ...
His reason was because of their position within the wage-labor relation contra the capitalists and how this unfair juxtaposition could be recognized and opposed through knowledge, theory, and collective action. 23 | P a g e High-Stakes Tests: Reasons To Strive For Better Marx Conclusion It has...
Started the “I Am Vow” graffiti thing again… (I might need to write an entire article just on this alone…stay tuned…) Went skiing for the first time! I did…ok. And Boulder has cool socks! Back in Atlanta, had a fantastic meeting with the brilliant David Lightburn of Atlanta Vent...
Rawls, J. (1972) A Theory of Justice. Oxford. Google Scholar Rex, J. (1970) Grundprobleme der soziologischen Theorie. Freiburg. Google Scholar Taylor, M. (1991) Rationality and Revolutionary Collective Action. In: Taylor, M. (ed.) Rationality and Revolution. Cambridge, 63-97. Google ...
Marx's theory of alienation was often employed to criticize religious, political, and economic divisions. However, the fact that it was basically about individuals and could only with great difficulty be applied to society made it a misleading tool when used in sociology. ...
weapon to realize his political ideas from Hegel's theory of development. He draws on the positive factors of Hegel's historical philosophy in the backward signs of The Times and goes beyond Hegel to put forward the historical view of the spiral development of history. He said: "I wou...
Lord Black and the Conflict Theory Perspective From the conflict theory perspective, Conrad Black is unique because the power struggle is not between the proletariat and the bourgeois but between competing members of the bourgeoisie: the shareholders (with U.S. government support) versus Black and ...
He replied that, in his opinion, "it would be rash to move from theory to practice until the theory itself had been honed to perfection". Marx, by contrast, believed the two were - or ought to be - inseparable and philosophers should concentrate on the "merciless criticism of all that ...