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What is the materialist conception of history?

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What are the social relations of production?

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The amount of relationships needed to survive, to produce and reproduce

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What are the means of production?

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Resources and tools that makes it possible for products and services to be created

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What is wage labour?

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Working for a set wage in the market

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What does ‘mode of production’ refer to?

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What is historical materialism?

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The unstable or dialectical process of continual of conflict and change is the driving force of human history

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What is primitive communism?

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Classless hunter-gatherer communities

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What is communism?

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A classless society

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What is capitalism?

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A society where big businesses control everything

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Who are the bourgeoisie?

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Capitalist class

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Who are the proletariat?

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Working class

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What is surplus value?

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When capitalists sell services and commodities that workers produce for profit

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What is class conflict?

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Clashing interests of classes

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What does ‘wealth inequality’ refer to?

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When workers wages are kept low and the capitalists wealth grows

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What is industrial capitalism?

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What is intrinsic satisfaction?

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What is alienation?

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What is infrastructure?

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What is superstructure?

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What is false consciousness?

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What is a ‘class in itself’?

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What is a ‘class for itself’?

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What is hegemony?

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What does ‘dual consciousness’ refer to?

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What are concessions?

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What is an organic intellectual?

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What is counter-hegemony?

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What is humanistic Marxism?

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What is a repressive state apparatus?

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What is an ideological state apparatus?

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What is relative autonomy?

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What is post-fordism?

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What is the postmodernist view?

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What is fordism?

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What is globalisation?

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examples of oppositional movements

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-environmentalists
-feminists
-antiracists
-indigenous groups

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What does Gramsci believe in?

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Hegemony
-concessions
-dual consciousness
War of Position
-counter-hegemony
-organic intellectuals

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What does Althusser believe in?

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-relative autonomy in the superstructure
-Repressive state apparatus
-Ideological state apparatus

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What does Harvey believe in?

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-globalised capitalism
-flexible accumulation (post-fordism)

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