Sociology and economics section 3 review - Sociology and economics section 3 review Theorizing the Transition to Capitalism Karl Marx Marx considered

Sociology and economics section 3 review  Theorizing the Transition to Capitalism  Karl Marx  Marx considered capitalism fundamentally flawed and inevitably doomed  Marx saw alienation as the basic state of being in a capitalist society – alienation is a condition in which people are dominated by forces of their own creation that then confront them as alien powers – For Marx, there were four forms of alienation under capitalist production  Alienation from the product – because of the division of labor, capitalist workers are no longer masters of their products  Alienation from the process – labor is forced by economic need and its rhythm is controlled not by the worker but by some other force  Alienation from other people – Marx believed that capitalism turns all relations into market relations – our relationships with others become conditioned by the ethic of capitalism which is profit maximization – think about how time becomes