Sociology / Unit 1 Soc 0019 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Karl Marx
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The idea
Karl Marx argued that society is driven by conflict between the class owning production and the class selling its labor.
In practice
Factory owners and factory workers need each other and want opposite things from the same hour of work.
Where people slip
Marx is read here as a sociological theorist of conflict, not as a political program.
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