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Rooted in Marx's earliest critiques of Hegel, it was reworked during subsequent studies and most clearly restated in the light of the regime established by the Paris Commune in 1870. This view is that the state is always an alienated form of political organization because it is based on a separation of rulers and ruled. S Seeing Things Differently This section considers two contrasting views on the future of capitalism. If Marxism tends to privilege the relations of production in explaining the dynamic of capitalism, some sociologists give more weight to the forces of production.
If you are a lone mother running for senate then you will have social perceptions that diverge from those possessed by a lone mother stuck in a damp one-room flat with no hot water, unmanageable debts and no opportunities for decent employment. We are dealing here with sociology's domain, with an area in which sociology has long been very much at home. Sociology has many resources to draw upon here - beyond a Marxist reductionism of the cultural - from Max Weber's first path-breaking insights into the importance of different types of understandings in social life, through Herbert Blumer's insistence on the significance of symbols and Erving GotTman's foregrounding of the Introduction 15 workings of the interaction order, to the documentary method of interpretation pioneered by Harold Garfinkel (see Chapter 13).
For others, it involves applying Hegelian dialectics to the internal relations and contradictions of capitalism. The first view holds more for the young Marx and his later broad historical analyses, the second applies more to the mature Marx and his abstract critique of capitalism. In addition, Marx tried different ways of presenting historical materialism. The popular view in the Communist Manifesto ( 1848), for example, contrasts clearly with the more abstract accounts in Marx's work on capitalism.