Sociology Critical Reading

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Sociology-Critical Reading “At a certain stage of their development, the material elements of a new product, and as factors in the labor process, by incorporating living labor with their dead substance, the capitalist at the same time converts value, i.e. past materialized, and dead labor, into capital, into value with big value, a live monster that is fruitful and multiplies”. This piece of writing is taken from Karl Marx’s Capital: A critique of political economy. An abridgement by Otto Ruhle. Part 3: The Production of Absolute Surplus-Value. Chapter Five: The Labor-Process and the Process of Producing Surplus-Value German philosopher, Karl Marx was an economist, sociologist, and a political revolutionary. Das Kapital was one of his most significant works. His overall doctrine advocates that the society comprises of a moving balance of incompatible forces that procreate social change by their stress and struggle. For Marx, struggle rather than serene development was the mechanism of progress. According to Marx’s doctrine, men engage in hostile cooperation as soon as they leave the...

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