Capitalist mode of production

Totalizing: Before the 1970s, many social theorists imagined society as an integrated whole. Thus, they attempted that a universal logic accounted for all human experience. However later theorist have criticized, earlier theories as “totalizing attempts” and argue that universal mechanisms and assumptions cannot account for the variations in human development and history. Also, Later theorist assert traditional social science premised on white, patriarchal, male dominated European colonialism…

Karl Marx defined society as being broken up into the base and superstructure. Marx described the base in A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy as the means of “production” that “constitutes the economic structure of society”, while the superstructure is the “social, political and intellectual life” that makes up the “social consciousness.” Moreover, in Marx and Engels’ The Communist Manifesto, they elucidate on the development of capitalism and the need for a global revolution.…

This process is called commodification. Because of the highly competitive nature of capitalism, it is important for capitalists to continue to find new streams of revenue (Zwick & Denegri Knott 2009). It is therefore arguable that this need for new innovative, profitable products has led to the commodification of personal information (Zwick & Denegri Knott, 2009., Zwart…

civilization to a benighted people, in fact, their quest to enrich themselves, the first generation of colonizers despoiled the continent, enslaved and killed huge numbers of people, and returned parts of the country to a hunting and gathering mode of production.” The Belgian Congo was a self-righteous escapade of the entitled…

activities are printing and washing, generally done by specialised agents. Subcontracting is adopted to increase actual tailoring capacity, or to for different processing or ancillary activities like embroidary. The labour process is as fragmented as the production cycle, responding to specific requirements of cost minimisation. Up until the 1970s, tailoring activities mainly went to the traditional tailoring caste in northern India known as ‘darzis’. However, the export boom loosened the caste…

as, slavery. The slaves had a direct role in the production of cotton and an indirect role in the production of clothes, furniture, and farming materials, which all produced money. Therefore, without the production of goods, by the slaves, there would be a never ending cycle, which is described in the following quote: “The accumulation of capital pre-supposes surplus-value; surplus-value pre-supposes capitalistic production; capitalistic production pre-supposes the pre-existence of considerable…

Even with all these changes, Marx still saw society as the oppressor and the oppressed. He identified the oppressor as the Bourgeoisie capitalists and the oppressed as the Proletariat workers. Marx stated, “We see, therefore, how the modern bourgeoisie is itself the product of a long course of development, of a series of revolutions in the modes of production and of exchange” (287). In his opinion, the “modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie”…

Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud came from two different eras as well as two different modes of thinking. At first, Marx and Freud to be taken together in academic field seem to be inappropriate. Marx concerns himself to the society, on how to free man from the alienation brought about by the capitalism. Freud concerns himself on the workings of the mind on the root cause of why man is acting this way and that way. The endeavor to put the two different fields of study in a nutshell and put them in…

All societies around the world have introduced laws and judicial systems in order to maintain order within its jurisdictions. These laws are meant to be impartial, neutral and objective in resolving social conflicts and protecting individuals in society (Little, 2012, p. 4). However, sometimes the purpose of law is questioned and the law itself is seen as unjust and in need of change. Throughout history, one can see how purposeful and organized groups have come together as a social movement to…

the other hand, Britain produced 21 million yard calico in 1796, however, in 1830, it rose to 347 million yard; moreover, Britain’s iron outputs were increasing at the late of 18th century and early 19th century, for example, Britain’s domestic production of pig iron was 125,000 tons, but it was 256,000 tons in 1806” (Willson 1967). At the beginning of 1850s, Britain almost monopolized the global industry and oversea trade, which called world factory. As Friedrich Engels said that “The…